How to format your references using the Anthropocene citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anthropocene. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Muramatsu, T., 2002. Development. Carbohydrate recognition in spermatogenesis. Science 295, 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hachet, O., Ephrussi, A., 2004. Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization. Nature 428, 959–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Contreras, M., Ceric, F., Torrealba, F., 2007. Inactivation of the interoceptive insula disrupts drug craving and malaise induced by lithium. Science 318, 655–658.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wolpoff, M.H., Senut, B., Pickford, M., Hawks, J., 2002. Palaeoanthropology. Sahelanthropus or “Sahelpithecus”? Nature 419, 581–2; discussion 582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levander, C.F., 2013. Where is American Literature? Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bellur, V.V. (Ed.), 2015. The 1980’s: A Decade of Marketing Challenges: Proceedings of the 1981 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Loonen, R.C.G.M., 2015. Bio-inspired Adaptive Building Skins, in: Pacheco Torgal, F., Labrincha, J.A., Diamanti, M.V., Yu, C.-P., Lee, H.K. (Eds.), Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 115–134.

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 Anthropocene.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Superbugs Evolve In Waste Water, And Could End Up In Our Food [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/superbugs-evolve-in-waste-water-and-could-end-up-in-our-food/ (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, 2001. Social Security Administration: Information Systems Could Improve Processing Attorney Fee Payments in Disability Program (No. GAO-01-796). 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

Compagna-Doll, V.A., 2017. Unearthing the Third: The Crone in Depth Psychotherapy (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Crow, K., 2002. A Real City Bird: Cathedral’s Peacock Is Treated for Malaise. New York Times 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Muramatsu, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hachet and Ephrussi, 2004; Muramatsu, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hachet and Ephrussi, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wolpoff et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Anthropocene
ISSN (print)	2213-3054
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Ecology Global and Planetary Change