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

Mervis, J.: RESEARCH POLICY: Report Tracks Federal Funding in Each State, Science, 288, 2115b, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Grady, M. and O’Hare, G.: Computer science. How smart is your city?, Science, 335, 1581–1582, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, H., Sun, H., and Sun, X.: Survival improvement by decade of patients aged 0-14 years with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a SEER analysis, Sci. Rep., 4, 4227, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

D’Auria, G., Peris-Bondia, F., Džunková, M., Mira, A., Collado, M. C., Latorre, A., and Moya, A.: Active and secreted IgA-coated bacterial fractions from the human gut reveal an under-represented microbiota core, Sci. Rep., 3, 3515, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong, K. D.: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Avison, D., Elliot, S., Krogstie, J., and Pries-Heje, J. (Eds.): The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976–2006 and Beyond: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-8, Information System Stream, August 21–23, 2006, Santiago, Chile, Springer US, Boston, MA, XVIII, 254 p. 40 illus pp., 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Cai, K. and Wonham, W. M.: Case Study: Production Cell, in: Supervisor Localization: A Top-Down Approach to Distributed Control of Discrete-Event Systems, edited by: Wonham, W. M., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 103–126, 2016.

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

Scientists Identify Genetic Difference Between Early Risers And Late Sleepers: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-identify-genetic-difference-between-early-risers-and-late-sleepers/, 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: Telecommunications: Status of Research on the Safety of Cellular Telephones, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fichera, M.: Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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

Pilon, M.: Jump in Prostitution Arrests in Super Bowl Week, New York Times, 30th January, B16, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis, 2000; O’Grady and O’Hare, 2012).

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

Two authors: (O’Grady and O’Hare, 2012)
Three or more authors: (D’Auria et al., 2013)

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