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

Temple, S., 2001. The development of neural stem cells. Nature 414, 112–117.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valiela, I., Fox, S.E., 2008. Ecology. Managing coastal wetlands. Science 319, 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shoemaker, C.J., Eyler, D.E., Green, R., 2010. Dom34:Hbs1 promotes subunit dissociation and peptidyl-tRNA drop-off to initiate no-go decay. Science 330, 369–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deluga, G.A., Salge, J.R., Schmidt, L.D., Verykios, X.E., 2004. Renewable hydrogen from ethanol by autothermal reforming. Science 303, 993–997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, W.M., 2012. Fusion Plasma Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Schumpelick, V., Fitzgibbons, R.J. (Eds.), 2007. Recurrent Hernia: Prevention and Treatment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gilbert, J.K., Justi, R., 2016. Learning Scientific Concepts from Modelling-Based Teaching, in: Justi, R. (Ed.), Modelling-Based Teaching in Science Education, Models and Modeling in Science Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–95.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientific Origins of Vampirism [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientific-origins-common-halloween-creatures/ (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, 1978. The Summer Feeding Program for Children: Reforms Begun--Many More Urgently Needed (No. CED-78-90). 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

Lutchman, C., 2008. Leadership impact on turnover among power engineers in the Oil Sands of Alberta (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Company for a Winter Journey. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Temple, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Temple, 2001; Valiela and Fox, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Valiela and Fox, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Deluga et al., 2004)

About the journal

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