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

Mattsson, A. E.: Density functional theory. In pursuit of the “divine” functional, Science, 298, 759–760, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty, T. and Saez, E.: Inequality in the long run, Science, 344, 838–843, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao, C. V., Wolf, D. M., and Arkin, A. P.: Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise, Nature, 420, 231–237, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Liu, J., Wang, X.-P., Cho, S., Lim, B. K., Irwin, D. M., Ryder, O. A., Zhang, Y.-P., and Yu, L.: Evolutionary and functional novelty of pancreatic ribonuclease: a study of Musteloidea (order Carnivora), Sci. Rep., 4, 5070, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waine, C.: Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

Bihanic, D. (Ed.): Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XXVII, 284 p. 68 illus., 57 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Sundaram, B. M. and Tippur, H. V.: Dynamic Crack Propagation in Layered Transparent Materials Studied Using Digital Gradient Sensing Method: Part-II, in: Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, edited by: Song, B., Lamberson, L., Casem, D., and Kimberley, J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 25–31, 2016.

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

Moron Shoots Cat With An Arrow In Michigan: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moron-shoots-cat-arrow-michigan/, 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: NASA: Ares I and Orion Project Risks and Key Indicators to Measure Progress, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez, R.: Growth and development of greenhouse vegetable seedlings under supplemental LED lighting, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2013.

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

Williams, J.: Opening Up About a Closed World, New York Times, 9th July, C6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mattsson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mattsson, 2002; Piketty and Saez, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Piketty and Saez, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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