Journal Articles
The most common items cited in geoscience research are journal articles. GSA citation style does not distinguish between print or online journal articles, but a DOI should be included if available. See the style guides above for information on citing books, abstracts and other information formats.
Basic format:
Author, A.A., Author, B.B., and Author, C.C., Year, Title of article: Title of Journal, v. #, p. ##-##, doi: 10.####/####
Examples:
Kominz, M.A., Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Mizintseva, S., and Scotese, C.R., 2008, Late Cretaceous to Miocene sea-level estimates from the New Jersey and Delaware coastal plain coreholes: An error analysis: Basin Research, v. 20, p. 211–226, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00354.x.
Doglioni, C., 1994, Foredeeps versus subduction zones: Geology, v. 22, p. 271–274.
Leigh, D.S., 1994, Roxana silt of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Lithology, source, and paleoenvironment: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 430–442.
Walter, L.M., Bischof, S.A., Patterson, W.P., and Lyons, T.L., 1993, Dissolution and recrystallization in modern shelf carbonates: Evidence from pore water and solid phase chemistry: Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions, ser. A, v. 344, p. 27–36.
General Tips
- All author names are listed in the same order as they appear on the article
- Use first and middle initials for authors with periods
- Only the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns are capitalized in the article title (sentence case)
- The journal titles are not italicized or underlined
