How to format your references using the Catena citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Sparks, S., 2007. Use the calm between the storms. Nature 450, 354.
A journal article with 2 authors
Sutton, P.J., Kusmartsev, F.V., 2013. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Sci. Rep. 3, 1276.
A journal article with 3 authors
Karner, M.B., DeLong, E.F., Karl, D.M., 2001. Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean. Nature 409, 507–510.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Wagner, R., Li, J., Kenar, E., Kohlbacher, O., Machicao, F., Häring, H.-U., Fritsche, A., Xu, G., Lehmann, R., 2014. Clinical and non-targeted metabolomic profiling of homozygous carriers of Transcription Factor 7-like 2 variant rs7903146. Sci. Rep. 4, 5296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
O’Malley, C., 2014. Bonds Without Borders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Hansson, A., 2011. On-Chip Interconnect with aelite: Composable and Predictable Systems, Embedded Systems. Springer, New York, NY.
A chapter in an edited book
Cloyd, E., Moser, S.C., Maibach, E., Maldonado, J., Chen, T., Britson, A., 2016. Engagement in the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment: commitment, capacity, and communication for impact, in: Jacobs, K., Moser, S., Buizer, J. (Eds.), The US National Climate Assessment: Innovations in Science and Engagement, Springer Climate. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–54.

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 Catena.

Blog post
Hale, T., 2016. This Is What The Internet Looked Like In 1973 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-is-what-the-internet-looked-like-in-1973/ (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, 1992. Financial Management: NASA’s Decisions Are Based on Unreliable Systems Data and Reports (No. T-AFMD-92-9). 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
Crossman, D.C., 2008. The impact of safety culture on worker motivation and the economic bottom line (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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
Wagner, J., 2017. Mets’ Plan to Deal With Injuries: Don’t Talk About Them So Much. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sparks, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sparks, 2007; Sutton and Kusmartsev, 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Sutton and Kusmartsev, 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Wagner et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleCatena
AbbreviationCatena
ISSN (print)0341-8162
ScopeEarth-Surface Processes

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