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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Koshland, D. E., Jr: Crazy, but correct, Nature, 432, 447, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dill, K. A. and MacCallum, J. L.: The protein-folding problem, 50 years on, Science, 338, 1042–1046, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N. J., Grootes, P. M., and Smith, F. H.: Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd, Nature, 430, 198–201, 2004.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Han, P., Lavoir, A.-V., Le Bot, J., Amiens-Desneux, E., and Desneux, N.: Nitrogen and water availability to tomato plants triggers bottom-up effects on the leafminer Tuta absoluta, Sci. Rep., 4, 4455, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bannwarth, H.: Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Akhtar, R., Dutt, A. K., and Wadhwa, V. (Eds.): Malaria in South Asia: Eradication and Resurgence During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XXXV, 241 p. 94 illus., 34 illus. in color p., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis-Jones, S.: Dry Skin in Childhood and the Misery of Eczema and Its Treatments, in: Treatment of Dry Skin Syndrome: The Art and Science of Moisturizers, edited by: Lodén, M. and Maibach, H. I., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 41–58, 2012.

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

O`Callaghan, J.: Help Find Planet Nine And You Could Name It (But You Can’t Pick Planet McPlanetface), https://www.iflscience.com/space/help-find-planet-nine-and-you-could-name-it/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2017., 2017.

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: Trends in Evaluation, 118591, 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

Zimmerman, T. F.: A descriptive review of the development and implementation of a funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The first 10 years, 1998–2008, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2010.

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

Hollander, S.: First Prize Is a Chance to Climb Everest, , New York Times20th JanuaryD10, 2003.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koshland, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dill and MacCallum, 2012; Koshland, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dill and MacCallum, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

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