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

Nicholson, D. W., 2000: From bench to clinic with apoptosis-based therapeutic agents. Nature, 407, 810–816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lankau, R. A., and S. Y. Strauss, 2007: Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community. Science, 317, 1561–1563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gung, Y., M. Panning, and B. Romanowicz, 2003: Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents. Nature, 422, 707–711.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Lacoste, V., P. Mauclère, G. Dubreuil, J. Lewis, M. C. Georges-Courbot, and A. Gessain, 2000: KSHV-like herpesviruses in chimps and gorillas. Nature, 407, 151–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport, H., 2011: The Literary Theory Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Rodrigues, F., 2012: Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services. M. Coles and D. Dye, Eds. Apress, XVIII, 636 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Kanekawa, N., E. H. Ibe, T. Suga, and Y. Uematsu, 2011: Fault-Tolerant System Technology. Dependability in Electronic Systems: Mitigation of Hardware Failures, Soft Errors, and Electro-Magnetic Disturbances, E.H. Ibe, T. Suga, and Y. Uematsu, Eds., Springer, 143–200.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017: The Next Particle Collider Could Be Seven Time More Powerful Than The LHC. 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, 1986: Telephone Communications: Bypass of the Local Telephone Companies. 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

Martinez, N. M., 2010: The influence of formal and informal support on the quality of life of individuals with a severe mental illness. 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

Clinton, B., and G. W. Bush, 2010: A Helping Hand for Haiti. New York Times, January 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholson 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nicholson 2000; Lankau and Strauss 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lankau and Strauss 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lacoste et al. 2000)

About the journal

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