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

Wolstenholme, A. J.: Evolution. Surviving in a toxic world, Science, 335, 545–546, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meyer, G. and Brose, N.: Neuroscience. SPARring with spines, Science, 302, 1341–1344, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Della Negra, M., Jenni, P., and Virdee, T. S.: Journey in the search for the Higgs boson: the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, Science, 338, 1560–1568, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Li, H.-L., Wang, Y.-Y., An, S.-Q., Zhi, Y.-B., Lei, G.-C., and Zhang, M.-X.: Sediment type affects competition between a native and an exotic species in coastal China, Sci. Rep., 4, 6748, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M. C.: LC/MS, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

Amara, A. and Rozeau, O. (Eds.): Planar Double-Gate Transistor: From Technology to Circuit, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VIII, 211 p pp., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Nuhoğlu Soysal, Y. and Wong, S.-Y.: Educating Future Citizens in Europe and Asia, in: School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education, edited by: Benavot, A., Braslavsky, C., and Truong, N., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 73–88, 2007.

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

The Sexiest Way To Dance, According To Science: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-sexiest-way-to-dance-according-to-science/, 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: Intercity Passenger Rail: The Financial Viability of Amtrak Continues to Be Threatened, 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

Powell, F. M.: A study of the effects of nanoparticle modification on the thermal, mechanical and hygrothermal performance of carbon/vinyl ester composites, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2012.

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

Senior, J.: My Cousin The Soldier And Robber, New York Times, 6th September, C1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wolstenholme, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer and Brose, 2003; Wolstenholme, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Meyer and Brose, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

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