How to format your references using the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lewis, S.L., 2014. Scientist-versus-activist debates mislead the public. Nature 506, 409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lansbury, P.T., Lashuel, H.A., 2006. A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic. Nature 443, 774–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dragert, G., Wang, K., James, T.S., 2001. A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface. Science 292, 1525–1528.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skumryev, V., Stoyanov, S., Zhang, Y., Hadjipanayis, G., Givord, D., Nogués, J., 2003. Beating the superparamagnetic limit with exchange bias. Nature 423, 850–853.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Gaisford, S., Saunders, M., 2012. Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ma, Z., Marchal, P., Scarpazza, D.P., Yang, P., Wong, C., Gómez, J.I., Himpe, S., Couvreur, C.Y.-, Catthoor, F. (Eds.), 2007. Systematic Methodology for Real-Time Cost-Effective Mapping of Dynamic Concurrent Task-Based Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoque, K.A., Ait Mohamed, O., Savaria, Y., Thibeault, C., 2014. Early Analysis of Soft Error Effects for Aerospace Applications Using Probabilistic Model Checking, in: Artho, C., Ölveczky, P.C. (Eds.), Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: Second International Workshop, FTSCS 2013, Queenstown, New Zealand, October 29--30, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 54–70.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. Hundreds Of Snow Leopards Killed Every Year In “Retaliation” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hundreds-of-snow-leopards-killed-every-year-in-retaliation/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1976. Analysis of Replacing Existing DOA Computer System (No. LCD-77-101). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Xiao, E.A., 2017. Understanding Employment to Entrepreneurship Transitions among Women Working in the Tech Industry (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Paulson, M., 2017. ‘Brilliant,’ 41, And Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why. New York Times AR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lansbury and Lashuel, 2006; Lewis, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lansbury and Lashuel, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Skumryev et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Asian Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)	1367-9120
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geology