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

Lazar, M. A.: Gene regulation. One man’s food, Nature, 407, 852–853, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gupta, M. and Zare, R. N.: Spinning molecules to bits, Nature, 407, 33–34, 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tasker, S. Z., Standley, E. A., and Jamison, T. F.: Recent advances in homogeneous nickel catalysis, Nature, 509, 299–309, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wolpoff, M. H., Senut, B., Pickford, M., and Hawks, J.: Palaeoanthropology. Sahelanthropus or “Sahelpithecus”?, Nature, 419, 581–2; discussion 582, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, B.: Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

Liang, P.: An Introduction to Neural Information Processing, edited by: Wu, S. and Gu, F., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XI, 328 p. 210 illus., 45 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, J.: Family and Autonomy: Towards Shared Medical Decision-Making in Light of Confucianism, in: Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives, edited by: Fan, R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 63–80, 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

Fly Above Mount Etna With This Stunning Drone Footage:

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: Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolfe, C. J.: Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 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

(nyt), S. K.: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Church Freezes Ties With Episcopalians, New York Times, 18th November, A6, 2003.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazar, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gupta and Zare, 2000; Lazar, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gupta and Zare, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wolpoff et al., 2002)

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