How to format your references using the Earth Surface Dynamics citation style

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

Rees, M. J.: Piecing together the biggest puzzle of all, Science, 290, 1919–1925, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Tomaso, A. W. and Weissman, I. L.: Evolution of a protochordate allorecognition locus, Science, 303, 977, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuster, J. M., Bodner, M., and Kroger, J. K.: Cross-modal and cross-temporal association in neurons of frontal cortex, Nature, 405, 347–351, 2000.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Evans, R. E., Bhaskar, M. K., Sukachev, D. D., Nguyen, C. T., Sipahigil, A., Burek, M. J., Machielse, B., Zhang, G. H., Zibrov, A. S., Bielejec, E., Park, H., Lončar, M., and Lukin, M. D.: Photon-mediated interactions between quantum emitters in a diamond nanocavity, Science, 362, 662–665, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez, R.: A Primer of Diffusion Problems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Yu, G. and Jin, Y. (Eds.): Assessing Chinese Learners of English: Language Constructs, Consequences and Conundrums, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, XVIII, 313 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Onofrio, M., Rampazzo, R., Zaggia, S., Longair, M. S., Ferrarese, L., Marziani, P., Sulentic, J. W., van der Kruit, P. C., Laurikainen, E., Elmegreen, D. M., Combes, F., Bertin, G., Fabbiano, G., Giovanelli, R., Calzetti, D., Moss, D. L., Matteucci, F., Djorgovski, S. G., Fraix-Burnet, D., Graham, A. W. M., and Tully, B. R.: The Anatomy of Galaxies, in: From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies: Dialogues on a Century of Research, edited by: D’Onofrio, M., Rampazzo, R., and Zaggia, S., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 243–379, 2016.

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 Surface Dynamics.

Blog post

Tigers Seized By Officials From Controversial Tiger Temple In Thailand: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tigers-seized-officials-tiger-temple-thailand/, last access: 30 October 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: Federal Communications Commission: Regulatory Fee Process Needs to Be Updated, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vu, M. K.: Reducing mental health provider burnout through wellness: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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.: Court Hears Whether a Drug Statement Is Protected Free Speech for Students, New York Times, 20th March, A16, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rees, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (De Tomaso and Weissman, 2004; Rees, 2000).

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

Two authors: (De Tomaso and Weissman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Evans et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Surface Dynamics
Abbreviation	Earth Surf. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	2196-6311
ISSN (online)	2196-632X
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics