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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth System Science Data Discussions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lawler, A.: ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: New Breed of Protester Asks: Why Not Us?, Science, 290, 1075, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tagle, R. and Claeys, P.: Comet or asteroid shower in the late Eocene?, Science, 305, 492, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, D. D. P., Stopka, P., and Knights, S.: Sociology: The puzzle of human cooperation, Nature, 421, 911–2; discussion 912, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Sancak, Y., Peterson, T. R., Shaul, Y. D., Lindquist, R. A., Thoreen, C. C., Bar-Peled, L., and Sabatini, D. M.: The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1, Science, 320, 1496–1501, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger, R. M.: Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

Paksoy, H. Ö. (Ed.): Thermal Energy Storage for Sustainable Energy Consumption: Fundamentals, Case Studies and Design, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XII, 428 p pp., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagy, G.: Interactive, Mobile, Distributed Pattern Recognition, in: Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005. Proceedings, edited by: Roli, F. and Vitulano, S., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–49, 2005.

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 Discussions.

Blog post

Astronomers Have Discovered A New Nearby Super-Earth: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-discovered-a-new-nearby-superearth/, 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: Athletic Department Profiles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McClain, R.: The role of spirituality/religiosity in the lives of people who are hearing impaired, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr: 24 Years Later, DNA Leads To Arrest in Attack on Girl, New York Times, 5th May, A29, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler, 2000; Tagle and Claeys, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Tagle and Claeys, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sancak et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth System Science Data Discussions
Abbreviation	Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1866-3591
Scope