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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stremlau, M., 2007: GE Prize-winning essay. Why Old World monkeys are resistant to HIV-1. Science, 318, 1565–1566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thodey, K., and C. D. Smolke, 2011: Cell biology. Bringing it together with RNA. Science, 333, 412–413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catani, M., I. Bodi, and F. Dell’Acqua, 2012: Comment on ‘The geometric structure of the brain fiber pathways’. Science, 337, 1605.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Zhong, H.-X., J.-J. Shi, M. Zhang, X.-H. Jiang, P. Huang, and Y.-M. Ding, 2014: Reducing Mg acceptor activation-energy in Al(0.83)Ga(0.17)N disorder alloy substituted by nanoscale (AlN)₅/(GaN)₁ superlattice using Mg(Ga) δ-doping: Mg local-structure effect. Sci. Rep., 4, 6710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Selyanin, M. A., P. Y. Boykov, V. N. Khabarov, and F. Polyak, 2015: Hyaluronic Acid. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Allison, B. Z., S. Dunne, R. Leeb, J. Del R. Millán, and A. Nijholt, eds., 2013: Towards Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces: Bridging the Gap from Research to Real-World Applications. Springer XXIV, 412 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Mastrolia, P., M. Rigoli, and A. G. Setti, 2012: Uniqueness. Yamabe-type Equations on Complete, Noncompact Manifolds, M. Rigoli and A.G. Setti, Eds., Springer, 127–155.

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: Gorgeous Time Lapse of Slow Marine Animal Movement. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gorgeous-time-lapse-slow-marine-animal-movement/.

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, 1990: U.S.-Korea Fighter Coproduction Program. 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

Gaines, M., 2017: Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students. Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse, L., 2006: Court Puts Teeth in ‘Notice’ Needed to Seize Property. New York Times, April 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stremlau 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Stremlau 2007; Thodey and Smolke 2011).

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

Two authors: (Thodey and Smolke 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al. 2014)

About the journal

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