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

Solomon, S.C.: Planetary science. Hot news on Mercury’s core. Science. 316, 702–703 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wicherts, J.M., Scholten, A.Z.: Comment on “Poverty impedes cognitive function.” Science. 342, 1169 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bichot, N.P., Rossi, A.F., Desimone, R.: Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science. 308, 529–534 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hwang, Y., Suk, S., Shih, Y.-R.V., Seo, T., Du, B., Xie, Y., Li, Z., Varghese, S.: WNT3A promotes myogenesis of human embryonic stem cells and enhances in vivo engraftment. Sci. Rep. 4, 5916 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corrigan, P.W., Roe, D., Tsang, H.W.H.: Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

Yin, X., Struik, P.C. eds: Crop Systems Biology: Narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Akiba, K.: Conjunctive, Disjunctive, Negative Objects and Generalized Quantification. In: Torza, A. (ed.) Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language. pp. 73–95. 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.: Women Suffer The Myths Of The Hymen And The Virginity Test, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-suffer-myths-hymen-and-virginity-test/

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: Tax System Modernization: Attention to Critical Issues Can Bring Success. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Abraham, C.: How Are Nonresident African American Fathers Involved in Their Children’s Academic Success?, (2017)

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

Hodgman, J.: Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, (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