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

Caplan A. 2004. Bioethics. Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? Science. 303(5661):1142

A journal article with 2 authors

Angelo G, Van Gilst MR. 2009. Starvation protects germline stem cells and extends reproductive longevity in C. elegans. Science. 326(5955):954–58

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey JM, Brust-Mascher I, Mogilner A. 2003. Cell division. Nature. 422(6933):746–52

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu X, Clark JM, Forster CA, Norell MA, Erickson GM, et al. 2006. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature. 439(7077):715–18

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon A, Hernandez S. 2016. The Official (ISC) 2® Guide to the SSCP 2® CBK 2®. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kaminski M, Martini S, eds. 2008. Computer Science Logic: 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy, September 16-19, 2008. Proceedings, Vol. 5213. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Abbasi SA, Miller A. 2013. An Efficient Dispersion Control Chart. In IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011, eds. HK Kim, S-I Ao, BB Rieger, pp. 61–70. 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

Fang J. 2014. Starving Female Mantises Eat Males Without Having Sex First. 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. 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.19). AIMD-10.1.19, 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

Lam NN. 2013. The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents. 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

Brantley B. 2016. Time Takes the Sharp Edges Off a Femme Fatale in a David Hare Revival. New York Times, Oct. 24, , p. C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caplan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Angelo & Van Gilst 2009; Caplan 2004).

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

Two authors: (Angelo & Van Gilst 2009)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2006)

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