How to format your references using the Comptes rendus - Geoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comptes rendus - Geoscience. 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

McGrew, W.C., 2010. Evolution. Chimpanzee technology. Science 328, 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Khajetoorians, A.A., Wiebe, J., 2014. Physics. Hitting the limit of magnetic anisotropy. Science 344, 976–977.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ditzen, M., Pellegrino, M., Vosshall, L.B., 2008. Insect odorant receptors are molecular targets of the insect repellent DEET. Science 319, 1838–1842.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bottke, W.F., Jr, Vokrouhlický, D., Broz, M., Nesvorný, D., Morbidelli, A., 2001. Dynamical spreading of asteroid families by the Yarkovsky effect. Science 294, 1693–1696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinstein, S., 2009. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Öztürk, M., Böer, B., Barth, H.-J., Clüsener-Godt, M., Khan, M.A., Breckle, S.-W. (Eds.), 2011. Sabkha Ecosystems: Volume III: Africa and Southern Europe, Tasks for Vegetation Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sultan, T., Khedr, A.E., Ali, M.M.R., 2012. Multi-Criteria Business Intelligence Approach, in: Das, V.V., Ariwa, E., Rahayu, S.B. (Eds.), Signal Processing and Information Technology: First International Joint Conference, SPIT 2011 and IPC 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1-2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–28.

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 Comptes rendus - Geoscience.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. New Electric Fish Genus in Amazon Tributaries [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-electric-fish-genus-amazon-tributaries/ (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, 2016. Youth with Autism: Roundtable Views of Services Needed During the Transition into Adulthood (No. GAO-17-109). 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

Steinberg, J., 2015. The Social Construction of Beauty: Body Modification Examined Through the Lens of Social Learning Theory (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

Johnson, K., 2015. From Iraq to Oregon, a Global Lotto Jackpot. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGrew, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Khajetoorians and Wiebe, 2014; McGrew, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Khajetoorians and Wiebe, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bottke et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comptes rendus - Geoscience
Abbreviation	C. R. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1631-0713
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Global and Planetary Change