How to format your references using the Earth System Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth System 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

Allen, R. M.: Geophysics. Transforming earthquake detection?, Science, 335, 297–298, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogg, R. C. and Bertrand, D.: Neuroscience. What genes tell us about nicotine addiction, Science, 306, 983–985, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mercader, J., Panger, M., and Boesch, C.: Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest, Science, 296, 1452–1455, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Boris, A. V., Kovaleva, N. N., Dolgov, O. V., Holden, T., Lin, C. T., Keimer, B., and Bernhard, C.: In-plane spectral weight shift of charge carriers in YBa2Cu3O6.9, Science, 304, 708–710, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furmston, M.: Powell-Smith and Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Günlük, O. and Woeginger, G. J. (Eds.): Integer Programming and Combinatoral Optimization: 15th International Conference, IPCO 2011, New York, NY, USA, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIII, 432 p. 30 illus., 3 illus. in color pp., 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Diong, M. L., Bas, P., Pelle, C., and Sawaya, W.: Document Authentication Using 2D Codes: Maximizing the Decoding Performance Using Statistical Inference, in: Communications and Multimedia Security: 13th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2012, Canterbury, UK, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, edited by: Decker, B. D. and Chadwick, D. W., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 39–54, 2012.

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 System Dynamics.

Blog post

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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: Federal Advisory Groups: DOT and DOE Can Take Steps to Better Assess Duplication Risk and Enhance Usefulness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aparicio, E. M.: Examining Latina/o STEM degree aspirations, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Lee, L.: Anarchy? No, It’s Art, New York Times, 7th December, ST4, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2012; Hogg and Bertrand, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hogg and Bertrand, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Boris et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth System Dynamics
Abbreviation	Earth Syst. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	2190-4979
ISSN (online)	2190-4987
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences