How to format your references using the Earth System Science Data citation style

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

Cooper, B.: Turing centenary: The incomputable reality, Nature, 482, 465, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hamilton, D. P. and Krüger, H.: The sculpting of Jupiter’s gossamer rings by its shadow, Nature, 453, 72–75, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J. M., Brust-Mascher, I., and Mogilner, A.: Cell division, Nature, 422, 746–752, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kieffer, S. W., Lu, X., Bethke, C. M., Spencer, J. R., Marshak, S., and Navrotsky, A.: A clathrate reservoir hypothesis for Enceladus’ south polar plume, Science, 314, 1764–1766, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E., Ellis, R., and S. Pujar, N.: Vaccine Development and Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Gorodetsky, V., Kotenko, I., and Skormin, V. (Eds.): Computer Network Security: Third International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 24-28, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 482 p pp., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmad, N. B. H., Shamsuddin, S. M., and Abraham, A.: Granular Mining of Student’s Learning Behavior in Learning Management System Using Rough Set Technique, in: Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning, edited by: Xhafa, F., Caballé, S., Abraham, A., Daradoumis, T., and Juan Perez, A. A., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 99–124, 2010.

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 Science Data.

Blog post

What To Do About Liberia’s Island Colony Of Abandoned Lab Chimps? https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-to-do-about-liberias-island-colony-of-abandoned-lab-chimps/, 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: Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Muniyappa, V. K.: Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Kishkovsky, S.: The Dreaded Call. A Hole in the Art. Now It’s Settled, New York Times, 19th December, E2, 2002.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cooper, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cooper, 2012; Hamilton and Krüger, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hamilton and Krüger, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kieffer et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth System Science Data
Abbreviation	Earth Syst. Sci. Data
ISSN (print)	1866-3508
ISSN (online)	1866-3516
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences