How to format your references using the Earth-Science Reviews citation style

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

Viseu, A., 2015. Integration of social science into research is crucial. Nature 525, 291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marsan, D., Lengliné, O., 2008. Extending earthquakes’ reach through cascading. Science 319, 1076–1079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, M., Kong, L., Qu, H., 2014. A systems biology approach to identify intelligence quotient score-related genomic regions, and pathways relevant to potential therapeutic treatments. Sci. Rep. 4, 4176.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Isomura, T., Ito, H., Ogawa, S., Masataka, N., 2014. Absence of predispositional attentional sensitivity to angry faces in children with autism spectrum disorders. Sci. Rep. 4, 7525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, A., 2013. Solar Energy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Damour, T., 2007. Gravitation and Experiment: Poincaré Seminar 2006, Progress in Mathematical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Berndt, J.O., Herzog, O., 2012. Distributed Learning of Best Response Behaviors in Concurrent Iterated Many-Object Negotiations, in: Timm, I.J., Guttmann, C. (Eds.), Multiagent System Technologies: 10th German Conference, MATES 2012, Trier, Germany, October 10-12, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 15–29.

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-Science Reviews.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Where Do Allergies Come From? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2001 (No. OGC-99-41). 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

Adaligil, E., 2010. Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dynarski, S., 2014. Finding Shock Absorbers for Student Debt. New York Times BU8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Viseu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marsan and Lengliné, 2008; Viseu, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marsan and Lengliné, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Isomura et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth-Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Earth Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0012-8252
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences