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

Kasting, J.F., 2013. Atmospheric science. How was early Earth kept warm? Science 339, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths, J., Ruths, D., 2014. Control profiles of complex networks. Science 343, 1373–1376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savrasov, S.Y., Kotliar, G., Abrahams, E., 2001. Correlated electrons in delta-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture. Nature 410, 793–795.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, H., Liu, Y., Cao, F., Wu, S., Jia, S., Cao, A., Zhao, D., Wang, J., 2013. Electron beam-assisted healing of nanopores in magnesium alloys. Sci. Rep. 3, 1920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, J.A., Tasman, A., 2006. Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Taylor, I.J., Harrison, A.B. (Eds.), 2009. From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities, Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Caillat, C., Perrakis, A., 2012. Cdt1 and Geminin in DNA Replication Initiation, in: MacNeill, S. (Ed.), The Eukaryotic Replisome: A Guide to Protein Structure and Function, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–87.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Nearly Half Of US Men Have A Genital HPV Infection [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nearly-half-of-us-men-have-a-genital-hpv-infection/ (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, 1991. Technology Transfer: Federal Efforts to Enhance the Competitiveness of Small Manufacturers (No. RCED-92-30). 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

Dolan, D.J., 2017. Structural Evolution of Martin Crater Thaumasia Planum, Mars (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

Kwai, I., 2017. Oy, Mate, Amazon Plans To Hire Aussie Speakers. New York Times A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kasting, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kasting, 2013; Ruths and Ruths, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ruths and Ruths, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

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