How to format your references using the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 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

Alonso J-M. 2006. Neuroscience. Neurons find strength through synchrony in the brain. Science. 312(5780):1604–5

A journal article with 2 authors

DeConto RM, Pollard D. 2003. Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2. Nature. 421(6920):245–49

A journal article with 3 authors

Laine E-M, Breuer H-P, Piilo J. 2014. Nonlocal memory effects allow perfect teleportation with mixed states. Sci. Rep. 4:4620

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Snow M, Cox S-L, Jenkin G, Trounson A, Shaw J. 2002. Generation of live young from xenografted mouse ovaries. Science. 297(5590):2227

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grinshpan L. 2012. Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhou J, Gal-Oz N, Zhang J, Gudes E, eds. 2014. Trust Management VIII: 8th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2014, Singapore, July 7-10, 2014. Proceedings, Vol. 430. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Schweitzer Y. 2007. Change of Mind-Set Following 9/11: The few that are already willing to Resort to Weapons of Mass Destruction. In Risk Assessment and Risk Communication Strategies in Bioterrorism Preparedness, eds. MS Green, J Zenilman, D Cohen, I Wiser, RD Balicer, pp. 55–66. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Oral Contraceptive Pill Could Be Altering The Physical Structure Of Your Brain. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1994. Theft From Airline Passenger Baggage. OSI-94-18R, 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

Beck J. 2017. An Inquiry into Theory Use in HCI Research. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Indiana University

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

Barron J. 2017. Sorting a Comic’s Library of Laughs (and Letters and Bills and …). New York Times, Oct. 22, , p. A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alonso 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Alonso 2006; DeConto & Pollard 2003).

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

Two authors: (DeConto & Pollard 2003)
Three or more authors: (Snow et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0084-6597
ISSN (online)	1545-4495
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics