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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Clement, B.M., 2004. Dependence of the duration of geomagnetic polarity reversals on site latitude. Nature 428, 637–640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Call, J., Carpenter, M., 2009. Behavior. Monkeys like mimics. Science 325, 824–825.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nabel, G.J., Wei, C.-J., Ledgerwood, J.E., 2011. Vaccinate for the next H2N2 pandemic now. Nature 471, 157–158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Konishi, Y., Stegmüller, J., Matsuda, T., Bonni, S., Bonni, A., 2004. Cdh1-APC controls axonal growth and patterning in the mammalian brain. Science 303, 1026–1030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kwok, S., 2011. Organic Matter in the Universe. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Parrochia, D., 2013. Towards a General Theory of Classifications, Studies in Universal Logic. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

van Glabbeek, R.J., Goltz, U., Schicke, J.-W., 2011. On Causal Semantics of Petri Nets, in: Katoen, J.-P., König, B. (Eds.), CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory: 22nd International Conference, CONCUR 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 6-9, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–59.

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: X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Alzheimer’s Drug Permeates Blood-Brain Barrier [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/alzheimer-s-drug-permeates-blood-brain-barrier/ (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, 1995. Federal Research: Interim Report on the Small Business Innovation Research Program (No. RCED-95-59). 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

Reddy, G.S., 2017. Modulo Multipliers with Adaptive Delay for a High Dynamic Range Residue Number System Using Booth Encoding (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Erdbrink, T., 2017. As Toll Rises, Iran Says ISIS Recruited Attackers From Within Country. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clement, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Call and Carpenter, 2009; Clement, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Call and Carpenter, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Konishi et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X
ISSN (print)	2590-0560
Scope