How to format your references using the Geoscience Communication citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geoscience Communication. 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

Yeomans, D.: Small bodies of the Solar System, Nature, 404, 829–832, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Korb, M. A. and Thakkar, U.: SPORE series winner. Facilitating scientific investigations and training data scientists, Science, 333, 534–535, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pocock, M. J. O., Evans, D. M., and Memmott, J.: The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks, Science, 335, 973–977, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Lekshmy, P. R., Midhun, M., Ramesh, R., and Jani, R. A.: 18O depletion in monsoon rain relates to large scale organized convection rather than the amount of rainfall, Sci. Rep., 4, 5661, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kracke, E.-A. and Lodde, K.: Leitfaden Straßenbrücken, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

de Carvalho, L. M. V. and Jones, C. (Eds.): The Monsoons and Climate Change: Observations and Modeling, Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 253 p. 105 illus., 11 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Poliquin, K., Cunningham, F. X., Gantt, R. R., and Gantt, E.: Interactions of Isoprenoid Pathway Enzymes and Indirect Stimulation of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis by Pentose Phosphate Cycle Substrates in Synechocystis PCC 6803, in: Isoprenoid Synthesis in Plants and Microorganisms: New Concepts and Experimental Approaches, edited by: Bach, T. J. and Rohmer, M., Springer, New York, NY, 51–63, 2013.

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 Geoscience Communication.

Blog post

Evidence Suggests Missing Students In Mexico Were Not Incinerated By A Drug Cartel:

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: Cost Overrun on the Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Unison-Pace, W. J.: Investigating generational differences of perceived uncivilized behaviors between students and faculty in nursing education, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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

Billard, M.: Scouting Report, New York Times, 21st October, E6, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yeomans, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Korb and Thakkar, 2011; Yeomans, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Korb and Thakkar, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lekshmy et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoscience Communication
ISSN (print)	2569-7102
ISSN (online)	2569-7110
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