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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nilsen, T.W., 2014. Molecular biology. Internal mRNA methylation finally finds functions. Science 343, 1207–1208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weitzer, S., Martinez, J., 2007. The human RNA kinase hClp1 is active on 3’ transfer RNA exons and short interfering RNAs. Nature 447, 222–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sowers, T., Alley, R.B., Jubenville, J., 2003. Ice core records of atmospheric N2O covering the last 106,000 years. Science 301, 945–948.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gally, C., Eimer, S., Richmond, J.E., Bessereau, J.-L., 2004. A transmembrane protein required for acetylcholine receptor clustering in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 431, 578–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin, J.-C., 2014. Participatory Mapping. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Romano, A., 2010. Continuum Mechanics: Advanced Topics and Research Trends, 1st ed, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, C., Xu, L., Ye, F., Chen, J., 2016. An Adaptive Error Concealment Algorithm Based on Partition Model, in: Tan, T., Wang, G., Wang, S., Liu, Y., Yuan, X., He, R., Li, S. (Eds.), Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies: 11th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2016, Beijing, China, July 8-9, 2016, Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Singapore, pp. 35–43.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. How The Diets Of Early Humans Explain Our Eating Habits [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-diets-early-humans-explain-our-eating-habits/ (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, 1973. Protecting the Consumer From Potentially Harmful Shellfish (Clams, Mussels, and Oysters) (No. B-164031(2)). 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

Johnson, T.F., 2017. The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Family and Friendship In Stately Victor’s Name. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nilsen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nilsen, 2014; Weitzer and Martinez, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weitzer and Martinez, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Gally et al., 2004)

About the journal

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