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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Motani, R.: Paleontology. Warm-blooded “sea dragons”?, Science, 328, 1361–1362, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. J. and Jorge y Jorge, M. del C.: Aztec arithmetic revisited: land-area algorithms and Acolhua congruence arithmetic, Science, 320, 72–77, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravin, A. A., Hannon, G. J., and Brennecke, J.: The Piwi-piRNA pathway provides an adaptive defense in the transposon arms race, Science, 318, 761–764, 2007.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Moss, R. H., Edmonds, J. A., Hibbard, K. A., Manning, M. R., Rose, S. K., van Vuuren, D. P., Carter, T. R., Emori, S., Kainuma, M., Kram, T., Meehl, G. A., Mitchell, J. F. B., Nakicenovic, N., Riahi, K., Smith, S. J., Stouffer, R. J., Thomson, A. M., Weyant, J. P., and Wilbanks, T. J.: The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment, Nature, 463, 747–756, 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henry-Labordère, A.: Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2009.

An edited book

Solomon, B. D. and Bailis, R. (Eds.): Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean, Springer, New York, NY, XII, 252 p. 42 illus., 24 illus. in color p., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Jimbo, K., Takamura, H., and Okumura, M.: Solving Crossword Puzzles Using Extended Potts Model, in: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, edited by: Hattori, H., Kawamura, T., Idé, T., Yokoo, M., and Murakami, Y., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 39–47, 2009.

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

Andrew, D.: Engineered Bacteria Are Helping Us Add Memory To Living Computers, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/engineered-bacteria-are-helping-us-add-memory-to-living-computers/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2016., 2016.

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: NASA: Commercial Partners Are Making Progress, but Face Aggressive Schedules to Demonstrate Critical Space Station Cargo Transport Capabilities, GAO-09-618, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunn, T. N.: A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2014.

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

Kelly, T.: High-Tech Fraternity, , New York Times6th NovemberB21, 1996.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Motani, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Motani, 2010; Williams and Jorge y Jorge, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Jorge y Jorge, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Moss et al., 2010)

About the journal

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