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

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

Cannon B (2013) Cardiovascular disease: Biochemistry to behaviour. Nature 493:S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown MS, Goldstein JL (2006) Biomedicine. Lowering LDL--not only how low, but how long? Science 311:1721–1723

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen A, Wang S, Pacala SW (2012) Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science 336:1639; author reply 1639

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kominis IK, Kornack TW, Allred JC, Romalis MV (2003) A subfemtotesla multichannel atomic magnetometer. Nature 422:596–599

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR (2015) The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hubbert S (2015) Spherical Radial Basis Functions, Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Butowski N, Chang S (2007) Adult High-Grade Glioma. In: Barnett GH (ed) High-Grade Gliomas: Diagnosis and Treatment. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 59–69

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 Seismology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Epic Rap Battle: Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye & Neil deGrasse Tyson. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/epic-rap-battle-isaac-newton-vs-bill-nye-neil-degrasse-tyson/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1993) Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Issues. 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

De la Pena Wing T (2010) Remembering Malintzin’s dream: A bridge between two cultures through language and love. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Smith B (2017) Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cannon 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Goldstein 2006; Cannon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Goldstein 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kominis et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Seismology
Abbreviation	J. Seismol.
ISSN (print)	1383-4649
ISSN (online)	1573-157X
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics