How to format your references using the Computational Geosciences citation style

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

Bilham, R.: Lessons from the Haiti earthquake. Nature. 463, 878–879 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel, M.R., Shen, K.: RSY-1 is a local inhibitor of presynaptic assembly in C. elegans. Science. 323, 1500–1503 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Qian, H., Wang, X., Zhang, Y.: Comment on “Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science. 335, 1573; author reply 1573 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lebreton, A., Lakisic, G., Job, V., Fritsch, L., Tham, T.N., Camejo, A., Matteï, P.-J., Regnault, B., Nahori, M.-A., Cabanes, D., Gautreau, A., Ait-Si-Ali, S., Dessen, A., Cossart, P., Bierne, H.: A bacterial protein targets the BAHD1 chromatin complex to stimulate type III interferon response. Science. 331, 1319–1321 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Black, R.: Pragmatic Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana (2016)

An edited book

Gafney, L.: Peer-Led Team Learning: Evaluation, Dissemination, and Institutionalization of a College Level Initiative. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Bruner, B.D., Soifer, H., Negro, M., Devetta, M., Faccialá, D., Vozzi, C., Stagira, S., de Silvestri, S., Dudovich, N.: Disentangling Structural and Dynamical Effects via Multidimensional High Harmonic Spectroscopy. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., Vivie-Riedle, R. de, Kuwata-Gonokami, M., and DiMauro, L. (eds.) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014. pp. 20–23. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Computational Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Trick Or Treat? The Psychology Of Fright And Halloween Horrors

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: Vehicle Safety: Enhanced Project Management of New Information Technology Could Help Improve NHTSA’s Oversight of Safety Defects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De La Cruz, C.F.: A program evaluation of a literacy initiative for students with moderate to severe disabilities, (2009)

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

Shear, M.D., Cardwell, D.: Trump Advisers Wage Tug of War On Climate Deal, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Geosciences
Abbreviation	Comput. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1420-0597
ISSN (online)	1573-1499
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications Computers in Earth Sciences Computational Mathematics