How to format your references using the Biogeosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biogeosciences. 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

Marshall, E.: A sinister plot or victim of politics?, Science, 289, 571, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, W. and Südhof, T. C.: A neural circuit for memory specificity and generalization, Science, 339, 1290–1295, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shin, S.-B., Golovkin, M., and Reddy, A. S. N.: A pollen-specific calmodulin-binding protein, NPG1, interacts with putative pectate lyases, Sci. Rep., 4, 5263, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ueda, M., Sako, Y., Tanaka, T., Devreotes, P., and Yanagida, T.: Single-molecule analysis of chemotactic signaling in Dictyostelium cells, Science, 294, 864–867, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimon, R.: Enterprise Performance Management Done Right, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Bendix, J., Beck, E., Bräuning, A., Makeschin, F., Mosandl, R., Scheu, S., and Wilcke, W. (Eds.): Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 440 p pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kirkwood, C.: Dialogue in its Larger Context, in: The Persons in Relation Perspective: In Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning, edited by: Kirkwood, C., SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 57–62, 2012.

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 Biogeosciences.

Blog post

Total Lunar Eclipse Tetrad Begins On April 15: https://www.iflscience.com/space/total-lunar-eclipse-tetrad-begins-april-15/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: The Upcoming Transition: GAO’s Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lawrence, B. H.: Evaluation of a cultural practice and 2,4-D-based herbicide programs for glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth management, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2015.

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.: Fitzgerald, Princeton and a Thoroughly Fictitious Theft, New York Times, 27th August, A15, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Marshall, 2000; Xu and Südhof, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Südhof, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ueda et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biogeosciences
Abbreviation	Biogeosciences
ISSN (print)	1726-4170
ISSN (online)	1726-4189
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Earth-Surface Processes