How to format your references using the Global and Planetary Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global and Planetary Change. 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

Bolfan-Casanova, N., 2007. Geochemistry. Fuel for plate tectonics. Science 315, 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl, J.L., Jones, J.D., 2001. Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature 411, 826–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoukis, N.C., Hall, B., Geib, S.M., 2014. A computer model of insect traps in a landscape. Sci. Rep. 4, 7015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gilbert, M., Mitchell, A., Bourn, D., Mawdsley, J., Clifton-Hadley, R., Wint, W., 2005. Cattle movements and bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain. Nature 435, 491–496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maude, D., 2006. Global Private Banking and Wealth Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Abran, A., Braungarten, R., Dumke, R.R., Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J., Brunekreef, J. (Eds.), 2009. Software Process and Product Measurement: International Conferences IWSM 2009 and Mensura 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 4-6, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tran, P., Friend, R., MacClune, K., Henceroth, J., 2016. Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Vulnerability Assessment in Hue City, Viet Nam, in: Uitto, J.I., Shaw, R. (Eds.), Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 57–69.

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 Global and Planetary Change.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Graphene Could Lead To Better Bullet-Proof Vests And Hydrogen Fuel Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1984. [Questions Concerning the Implementation of the Student Loan Consolidation and Technical Amendments Act of 1983] (No. B-214351). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siani, J.M., 2009. Costs and benefits of cooperative infant care in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Ziegler, M., 2016. Where the Pro-Life Movement Goes Next. New York Times SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bolfan-Casanova, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bolfan-Casanova, 2007; Dangl and Jones, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Dangl and Jones, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gilbert et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global and Planetary Change
Abbreviation	Glob. Planet. Change
ISSN (print)	0921-8181
Scope	Oceanography Global and Planetary Change