How to format your references using the Ore Geology Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ore Geology Reviews. 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

Todes, D., 2009. Global Darwin: Contempt for competition. Nature 462, 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferraro, P.J., Kiss, A., 2002. Ecology. Direct payments to conserve biodiversity. Science 298, 1718–1719.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryk, R., Griffin, P., Nathan, C., 2000. Peroxynitrite reductase activity of bacterial peroxiredoxins. Nature 407, 211–215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fan, H.S., Wang, H., Zhao, N., Xu, J., Pan, F., 2014. Nano-porous architecture of N-doped carbon nanorods grown on graphene to enable synergetic effects of supercapacitance. Sci. Rep. 4, 7426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier, J., Owen, A., Kwade, A., Van de Voorde, M., 2017. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gavanelli, M., Lamma, E., Riguzzi, F. (Eds.), 2015. AI*IA 2015 Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XIVth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Ferrara, Italy, September 23-25, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, Yeonhee, Kang, W., Lee, Youngseok, 2011. A Hadoop-Based Packet Trace Processing Tool, in: Domingo-Pascual, J., Shavitt, Y., Uhlig, S. (Eds.), Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–63.

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 Ore Geology Reviews.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Your Anonymous Credit Card Data Can Be Matched Back To You [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2004. Coast Guard Programs: Relationship between Resources Used and Results Achieved Needs to Be Clearer (No. GAO-04-432). 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

Raynor, S.L., 2017. A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. Bills to Empower Puerto Rico to Shed Debt Face Likely G.O.P. Opposition. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Todes, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ferraro and Kiss, 2002; Todes, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ferraro and Kiss, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ore Geology Reviews
Abbreviation	Ore Geol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0169-1368
Scope	Economic Geology Geochemistry and Petrology Geology