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

Nossal, G. J. V.: The double helix and immunology, Nature, 421, 440–444, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleizen, B. and Braakman, I.: Cell biology. A sweet send-off, Science, 340, 930–931, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jenkins, N., Saam, J. R., and Mango, S. E.: CYK-4/GAP provides a localized cue to initiate anteroposterior polarity upon fertilization, Science, 313, 1298–1301, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Chorev, D. S., Baker, L. A., Wu, D., Beilsten-Edmands, V., Rouse, S. L., Zeev-Ben-Mordehai, T., Jiko, C., Samsudin, F., Gerle, C., Khalid, S., Stewart, A. G., Matthews, S. J., Grünewald, K., and Robinson, C. V.: Protein assemblies ejected directly from native membranes yield complexes for mass spectrometry, Science, 362, 829–834, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBattista, M.: Novel Characters, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

Chaudhuri, J. and Al-Rubeai, M. (Eds.): Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering: Principles, Design and Operation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VIII, 376 p pp., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Pelton, J. N. and Singh, I. B.: Cybersecurity for Smart Phones, Mobile Apps, and “The Cloud,” in: Digital Defense: A Cybersecurity Primer, edited by: Singh, I. B., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 83–101, 2015.

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

Mysterious White Object Spotted On Ceres: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hopes-dawn-will-explain-white-spot-ceres/, 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: Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narayanan, B. C.: Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2008.

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

Pilon, M.: U.S. Olympic Team Selected, New York Times, 27th February, D7, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nossal, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kleizen and Braakman, 2013; Nossal, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kleizen and Braakman, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chorev 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