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

Watson, R. T.: Climate change: the political situation, Science, 302, 1925–1926, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vollan, B. and Ostrom, E.: Social science. Cooperation and the commons, Science, 330, 923–924, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen, M. H., Aloni, S., and De Yoreo, J. J.: In situ TEM imaging of CaCO₃ nucleation reveals coexistence of direct and indirect pathways, Science, 345, 1158–1162, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Li, W., Bloom, J. S., Podsiadlowski, P., Miller, A. A., Cenko, S. B., Jha, S. W., Sullivan, M., Howell, D. A., Nugent, P. E., Butler, N. R., Ofek, E. O., Kasliwal, M. M., Richards, J. W., Stockton, A., Shih, H.-Y., Bildsten, L., Shara, M. M., Bibby, J., Filippenko, A. V., Ganeshalingam, M., Silverman, J. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Law, N. M., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R. M., McCully, C., Patel, B., Maguire, K., and Shen, K. J.: Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe, Nature, 480, 348–350, 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowers, D., House, A., and Owens, D.: Getting Started in Health Research, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Martinelli, E. (Ed.): Funzioni e varietà complesse, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 280 pagg. 4 figg pp., 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Green, T. M., Arias-Hernandez, R., and Fisher, B.: Individual Differences and Translational Science in the Design of Human-Centered Visualizations, in: Handbook of Human Centric Visualization, edited by: Huang, W., Springer, New York, NY, 93–113, 2014.

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

Cassini Snaps Sublime Close-Up Images Of Saturn’s North Pole:

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: Telecommunications Acquisitions: Information on GSA’s Procurements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Danso Odei, P. K.: Effective Resolution of The Bibiani-Anhwianso-Bekwai District Healthcare Delivery System: An Outcome-Based Evaluative Case, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2017.

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

Hu, W.: Taking Aim at Sidewalk Scaffolding, That Unwanted Neighbor, New York Times, 6th December, A21, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watson, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Vollan and Ostrom, 2010; Watson, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Vollan and Ostrom, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2011)

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