How to format your references using the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw (NJG). 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

Bunz, U.H.F., 2005. Chemistry. How are alkynes scrambled? Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5719): 216–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rikken, G.L. & Raupach, E., 2000. Enantioselective magnetochiral photochemistry. Nature 405(6789): 932–935.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, H., Opresko, P. & Myong, S., 2014. Single-molecule real-time detection of telomerase extension activity. Scientific Reports 4: 6391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Toudic, B., Garcia, P., Odin, C., Rabiller, P., Ecolivet, C., Collet, E., Bourges, P., McIntyre, G.J., Hollingsworth, M.D. & Breczewski, T., 2008. Hidden degrees of freedom in aperiodic materials. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319(5859): 69–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albalate, A. & Minker, W., 2013. Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Paradossi, G., Pellegretti, P. & Trucco, A. (eds.), 2010. Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Targeting and Processing Methods for Theranostics. Springer (Milano): XX, 200 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Shen, Z.-J., 2006. Progress in Binary Medium Modeling of Geological Materials. In: W. Wu & H.-S. Yu (eds.): Modern Trends in Geomechanics. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg): pp. 77–99.

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 Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015, June 4. How Do You Get To Mars In Half The Time?

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, 1996. NASA Facilities: Challenges to Achieving Reductions and Efficiencies (No. T-NSIAD-96-238). 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

Sefrit, J., 2008. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled B Y, 2004, December 14. Arts, Briefly; Rachmaninoff Score Unsold. New York Times p. E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunz, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rikken & Raupach, 2000; Bunz, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Rikken & Raupach, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Toudic et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw
ISSN (print)	0016-7746
ISSN (online)	1573-9708
Scope