How to format your references using the Aeolian Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aeolian Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Fedoroff, N.V., 2003. Agriculture. Prehistoric GM corn. Science 302, 1158–1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Convey, P., Stevens, M.I., 2007. Ecology. Antarctic biodiversity. Science 317, 1877–1878.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiserer, A., Ritter, S., Rempe, G., 2013. Nondestructive detection of an optical photon. Science 342, 1349–1351.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nikolov, N., Sing, D.K., Fortney, J.J., Goyal, J.M., Drummond, B., Evans, T.M., Gibson, N.P., De Mooij, E.J.W., Rustamkulov, Z., Wakeford, H.R., Smalley, B., Burgasser, A.J., Hellier, C., Helling, C., Mayne, N.J., Madhusudhan, N., Kataria, T., Baines, J., Carter, A.L., Ballester, G.E., Barstow, J.K., McCleery, J., Spake, J.J., 2018. An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free “hot Saturn” exoplanet. Nature 557, 526–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zinkin, J., 2013. Rebuilding Trust in Banks. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bronner, F., Farach-Carson, M.C. (Eds.), 2009. Bone and Cancer, Topics in Bone Biology. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mielke, A., 2015. Variational Approaches and Methods for Dissipative Material Models with Multiple Scales, in: Conti, S., Hackl, K. (Eds.), Analysis and Computation of Microstructure in Finite Plasticity, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 125–155.

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 Aeolian Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Eyes on the Skies: Orionid Meteor Shower [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/eyes-skies-orionid-meteor-shower/ (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, 1995. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Funding Needs (No. RCED-95-152R). 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

Pak, C.H., 2015. A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2009. Supervisor for the Short Term in Brookhaven. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fedoroff, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Convey and Stevens, 2007; Fedoroff, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Convey and Stevens, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nikolov et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aeolian Research
Abbreviation	Aeolian Res.
ISSN (print)	1875-9637
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geology

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