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

Gravitz, L., 2015: Prevention: Tending the gut. Nature, 521, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castanotto, D., and J. J. Rossi, 2009: The promises and pitfalls of RNA-interference-based therapeutics. Nature, 457, 426–433.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani, J., D. S. Andersen, and P. Léopold, 2012: Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science, 336, 582–585.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Lu, X., E. Wetter, N. Bharti, A. J. Tatem, and L. Bengtsson, 2013: Approaching the limit of predictability in human mobility. Sci. Rep., 3, 2923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teague, K. A., and N. Gallicchio, 2017: The Evolution of Meteorology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

McAlpine, S. R., and A. L. Edkins, eds., 2016: Heat Shock Protein Inhibitors: Success Stories. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, VII, 238 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Guck, D., T. Han, J.-P. Katoen, and M. R. Neuhäußer, 2012: Quantitative Timed Analysis of Interactive Markov Chains. NASA Formal Methods: 4th International Symposium, NFM 2012, Norfolk, VA, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, A.E. Goodloe and S. Person, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 8–23.

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

Andrew, E., 2014: How Shrinking Aided Evolutionary Success of Dinosaurs. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-shrinking-aided-evolutionary-success-dinosaurs/ (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, 1998: Air Traffic Control: Information Concerning Equipment Outages at Two Kansas City Area Facilities. 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

Lucas, M. A., 2017: Bridging the Gap Between Schools and Families Through Teacher Home Visits. Lindenwood University, .

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

Mueller, B., 2015: An Off-Duty Police Officer Is Robbed of Her Gun After Being Attacked in the Bronx. New York Times, July 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz 2015; Castanotto and Rossi 2009).

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

Two authors: (Castanotto and Rossi 2009)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2013)

About the journal

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