How to format your references using the Earth Surface Processes and Landforms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 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

Winchester S. 2008. China: The man who unveiled China. Nature 454 : 409–411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergink S, Jentsch S. 2009. Principles of ubiquitin and SUMO modifications in DNA repair. Nature 458 : 461–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheianov VV, Fal’ko V, Altshuler BL. 2007. The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 : 1252–1255.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Armani AM, Kulkarni RP, Fraser SE, Flagan RC, Vahala KJ. 2007. Label-free, single-molecule detection with optical microcavities. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 : 783–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones P, Burger J. 2009. Configuring SAP® ERP Financials and Controlling . Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Atasu A (ed). 2016. Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains . Springer International Publishing: Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Daigle J. 2013. Balance: is it Obtainable? In Student Teaching: A Journey in Narratives , Fasching-Varner KJ, Eisworth HB, Mencer TH, Lindbom-Cho DR, Murray MC, and Morton BC (eds). SensePublishers: Rotterdam; 57–69.

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 Processes and Landforms.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. The Smell Of Death: Its Chemical Pattern Could Become A Powerful Forensic Tool. IFLScience [online] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/smell-death-its-chemical-pattern-could-become-powerful-forensic-tool/ (Accessed 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. 1996. Consumer Health Informatics: Emerging Issues . U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez JM. 2008. Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ

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

Vecsey G. 2011. Far From Perfection, but Closer to Vindication. New York Times 8th May : SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winchester, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bergink and Jentsch, 2009; Winchester, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bergink and Jentsch, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Armani et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Abbreviation	Earth Surf. Process.
ISSN (print)	0197-9337
ISSN (online)	1096-9837
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development