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

Batista, V. S.: Chemistry. Energy flow under control, Science, 326, 245–246, 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Balasubramanian, M. and Schwartz, E. L.: The isomap algorithm and topological stability, Science, 295, 7, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan, Y., Li, H., and Miguez-Macho, G.: Global patterns of groundwater table depth, Science, 339, 940–943, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wenk, H. R., Matthies, S., Hemley, R. J., Mao, H. K., and Shu, J.: The plastic deformation of iron at pressures of the Earth’s inner core, Nature, 405, 1044–1047, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nathanail, C. P. and Bardos, R. P.: Reclamation of Contaminated Land, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Bessani, A. and Bouchenak, S. (Eds.): Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 15th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2015, Held as Part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015, Grenoble, France, June 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 221 p. 88 illus pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Castano, V. and Schagaev, I.: FT Models, in: Resilient computer system design, edited by: Schagaev, I., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 113–143, 2015.

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

The Year Coal Collapsed: 2016 Was A Turning Point For Britain’s Electricity: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-year-coal-collapsed-2016-was-a-turning-point-for-britains-electricity/, 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: Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Toler, R. L.: Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2017.

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

Greenhouse, L.: Over Guantánamo, Justices Come Under Election-Year Spotlight, New York Times, 14th June, A10, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Batista, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Balasubramanian and Schwartz, 2002; Batista, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Balasubramanian and Schwartz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wenk et al., 2000)

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