How to format your references using the Earth Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth Interactions. 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	Download the output style file
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

Barnes, P. J., 2010: Medicine. Neutrophils find smoke attractive. Science, 330, 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. G., and C. Dye, 2003: Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science, 301, 1535–1537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tria, F., S. Pompei, and V. Loreto, 2013: Dynamically correlated mutations drive human Influenza A evolution. Sci. Rep., 3, 2705.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Shriner, D., F. Tekola-Ayele, A. Adeyemo, and C. N. Rotimi, 2014: Genome-wide genotype and sequence-based reconstruction of the 140,000 year history of modern human ancestry. Sci. Rep., 4, 6055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D. W., 2008: Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd,.

An edited book

Martella, C., 2015: Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph. R. Shaposhnik and D. Logothetis, Eds. Apress, XIX, 315 p. 104 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, A., H. Zhang, and J. G. Hou, 2012: Electron Transport in Single Molecules and Nanostructures. Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Z. Zhou, Z. Wang, and L. Lin, Eds., Springer, 149–183.

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 Earth Interactions.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Metallic Object On Mars. IFLScience,. (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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, 1985: Survey of Small Businesses’ Reactions to Changes in the Costs of Telephone Service. U.S. Government Printing Office,.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Szurley, J. C., 2010: The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume. California State University, Long Beach, .

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007: Elizabeth Taylor To Keep Van Gogh. New York Times, October 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes 2010; Williams and Dye 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Dye 2003)
Three or more authors: (Shriner et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Interactions
Abbreviation	Earth Interact.
ISSN (online)	1087-3562
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences