How to format your references using the Earth Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth Perspectives. 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

Baker D (2000) A surprising simplicity to protein folding. Nature 405:39–42

A journal article with 2 authors

Geller AM, Mathieu RD (2011) A mass transfer origin for blue stragglers in NGC 188 as revealed by half-solar-mass companions. Nature 478:356–359

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt GR, Corballis MC, Gray RD (2001) Animal behaviour: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows. Nature 414:707

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bortnik J, Li W, Thorne RM, et al (2009) An observation linking the origin of plasmaspheric hiss to discrete chorus emissions. Science 324:775–778

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner DB (2012) Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Amara SG (ed) (2007) Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gate L, Tew KD (2011) Alkylating Agents. In: Minev BR (ed) Cancer Management in Man: Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, Hyperthermia and Supporting Measures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–85

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Dung Beetles Evolved With Dinosaurs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dung-beetles-evolved-dinosaurs/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) VA Information Technology: Important Initiatives Begun, Yet Serious Vulnerabilities Persist. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kargbo AH (2019) An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Zahler P, Schaller G (2014) Saving More Than Just Snow Leopards. New York Times SR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2000; Geller and Mathieu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Geller and Mathieu 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bortnik et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Perspectives
ISSN (online)	2194-6434
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