How to format your references using the Journal of Petrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Petrology. 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

Feagin, R. (2009). Journal club. A coastal ecologist sees the hidden effects of hurricanes. Nature 461, 319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gasteiger, H. A. & Marković, N. M. (2009). Chemistry. Just a dream--or future reality? Science (New York, N.Y.) 324, 48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, J., Thompson, B. & Hess, R. F. (2013). A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Scientific reports 3, 2638.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Metzger, E. et al. (2010). Phosphorylation of histone H3T6 by PKCbeta(I) controls demethylation at histone H3K4. Nature 464, 792–796.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geier, R., Angelmaier, V., Graubner, C.-A. & Kohoutek, J. (2017). Integrale Brücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Urman, R. D. & Ehrenfeld, J. M. (eds) (2012). Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Csajbók, Z. E. & Mihálydeák, T. (2014). From Vagueness to Rough Sets in Partial Approximation Spaces. In: Kryszkiewicz, M., Cornelis, C., Ciucci, D., Medina-Moreno, J., Motoda, H. & Raś, Z. W. (eds) Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: Second International Conference, RSEISP 2014, Held as Part of JRS 2014, Granada and Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 42–52.

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 Petrology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Researchers Attempt To Develop A Vaccine For Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 (1990). Operations of and Outlook for the Highway Trust Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Isaacson, M. J. (2009). The paradox of respect and risk: Six Lakota adolescents speak. Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University.

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

Hartman, S. (2016). The Pie Maker’s Tale. New York Times, 7 May, page MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feagin, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Feagin, 2009; Gasteiger and Marković, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gasteiger and Marković, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Metzger et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Petrology
ISSN (print)	0022-3530
ISSN (online)	1460-2415
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics