How to format your references using the Organic Geochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic Geochemistry. 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

Crowther, R., 2002. Space science. Space junk--protecting space for future generations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, 1241–1242.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, C.S., McGillicuddy, D.J., Jr, 2006. Transatlantic abundance of the N2-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mulepati, S., Héroux, A., Bailey, S., 2014. Structural biology. Crystal structure of a CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex bound to a ssDNA target. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345, 1479–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanvir, N.R., Chapman, R., Levan, A.J., Priddey, R.S., 2005. An origin in the local Universe for some short gamma-ray bursts. Nature 438, 991–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth, M., 2012. Pharmazeutische Mikrobiologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Alconada Magliano, T.M., Chulze, S.N. (Eds.), 2013. Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Christoph, A., 2014. Media-Related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch, in: Liebenberg, E., Collier, P., Török, Z.G. (Eds.), History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–69.

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 Organic Geochemistry.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Fossil Evidence Reveals That Cancer In Humans Goes Back 1.7 Million Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/fossil-evidence-reveals-that-cancer-in-humans-goes-back-1-point-7-million-years/ (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, 1991. Aviation Noise: Costs of Phasing Out Noisy Aircraft (No. RCED-91-128). 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

Reller, T.L., 2010. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools (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

Dominus, I. by S., 2014. ‘My Moves Speak for Themselves.’ New York Times MM10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crowther, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Crowther, 2002; Davis and McGillicuddy, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Davis and McGillicuddy, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tanvir et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic Geochemistry
Abbreviation	Org. Geochem.
ISSN (print)	0146-6380
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology