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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Sarewitz, D.: Science agencies must bite innovation bullet, Nature, 471, 137, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Primakoff, P. and Myles, D. G.: Penetration, adhesion, and fusion in mammalian sperm-egg interaction, Science, 296, 2183–2185, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aspinwall, L. G., Brown, T. R., and Tabery, J.: The double-edged sword: does biomechanism increase or decrease judges’ sentencing of psychopaths?, Science, 337, 846–849, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhang, S.-M., Adema, C. M., Kepler, T. B., and Loker, E. S.: Diversification of Ig superfamily genes in an invertebrate, Science, 305, 251–254, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieser, K. H.: Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007.

An edited book

Zhang, Z. and Zhang, S. S. (Eds.): Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Technologies and New Trends, Springer International Publishing, Cham, IX, 712 p. 337 illus pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kleinpoppen, H., Lohmann, B., and Grum-Grzhimailo, A. N.: Concluding Remarks, in: Perfect/Complete Scattering Experiments: Probing Quantum Mechanics on Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Coincidences, edited by: Lohmann, B. and Grum-Grzhimailo, A. N., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 293–295, 2013.

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 Discussions.

Blog post

DNA Hard Drive Could Store Data For Millions Of Years: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-fossil-inspired-dna-hard-drive-store-data-forever/, 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: State Department: Provision of Residential Furniture Inconsistent With Best Practices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grace, J.: A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing Students, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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

Saslow, L.: Graduation Rates Rise, and Bar Is Raised, New York Times, 17th August, LI2, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Primakoff and Myles, 2002; Sarewitz, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Primakoff and Myles, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions
Abbreviation	Earth Surf. Dyn. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	2196-6338
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