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 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

Stoll, H., 2009. Journal club. A biogeochemist sees the value of diversity in a changing ocean. Nature 460, 935.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray, A.W., Marks, D., 2001. Can sequencing shed light on cell cycling? Nature 409, 844–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler, U.K., Bogdanov, A.N., Pfleiderer, C., 2006. Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature 442, 797–801.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lundberg, P., Ranta, E., Kaitala, V., Jonzén, N., 2000. Coexistence and resource competition. Nature 407, 694.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, A.K.M.E., Arashi, M., Tabatabaey, S.M.M., 2014. Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t -Distributed Errors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Everly, G.S., Jr., 2013. A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response, 3rd ed. 2013. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Román, J.A., Rodríguez, S., de la Prieta, F., 2016. Improving the Distribution of Services in MAS, in: Bajo, J., Escalona, M.J., Giroux, S., Hoffa-Dąbrowska, P., Julián, V., Novais, P., Sánchez-Pi, N., Unland, R., Azambuja-Silveira, R. (Eds.), Highlights of Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection: International Workshops of PAAMS 2016, Sevilla, Spain, June 1-3, 2016. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–46.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. There Are Better Ways To Quantify How Big And Bad A Hurricane Is [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/there-are-better-ways-quantify-how-big-and-bad-hurricane/ (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, 2005. National Airspace System: FAA Has Made Progress but Continues to Face Challenges in Acquiring Major Air Traffic Control Systems (No. GAO-05-331). 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

Schutt, R., 2010. Topics in model-based population inference (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Lanchester, J., 2017. The Major Blind Spots in Macroeconomics. New York Times MM14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stoll, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Murray and Marks, 2001; Stoll, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Murray and Marks, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lundberg et al., 2000)

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