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

Chakravarti A. 2008. Obituary: Victor Almon McKusick (1921-2008). Nature. 455(7209):46

A journal article with 2 authors

Deeks SG, Barré-Sinoussi F. 2012. Public health: Towards a cure for HIV. Nature. 487(7407):293–94

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu Z, Gauthier DJ, Boyd RW. 2007. Stored light in an optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Science. 318(5857):1748–50

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hedges JI, Baldock JA, Gélinas Y, Lee C, Peterson M, Wakeham SG. 2001. Evidence for non-selective preservation of organic matter in sinking marine particles. Nature. 409(6822):801–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox DA. 2004. Galois Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zajda J, Biraimah K, Gaudelli W, eds. 2008. Education and Social Inequality in the Global Culture, Vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Kindler S, Kreienkamp H-J. 2012. The Role of the Postsynaptic Density in the Pathology of the Fragile X Syndrome. In Modeling Fragile X Syndrome, ed. RB Denman, pp. 61–80. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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

Fang J. 2015. Newly Identified Sperm-Specific Protein Bolsters Prospects Of Male Contraceptive. 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. 1996. Social Security: Telephone Access Enhanced at Field Offices Under Demonstration Project. HEHS-96-70, 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

Washington S. 2010. Counseling students ability to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Cowen T. 2015. How a Marriage of Equals May Promote Inequality. New York Times, Dec. 24, , p. BU6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chakravarti 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Chakravarti 2008; Deeks & Barré-Sinoussi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Deeks & Barré-Sinoussi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hedges et al. 2001)

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