How to format your references using the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 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

Gingerich, O. (2000). Tycho and the ton of gold. Nature, 403(6767), 251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Treseder, K. K., & Holden, S. R. (2013). Ecology. Fungal carbon sequestration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6127), 1528–1529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine, J. H., Lin, Y., & Elowitz, M. B. (2013). Functional roles of pulsing in genetic circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1193–1200.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Panchal, V., Pearce, R., Yakimova, R., Tzalenchuk, A., & Kazakova, O. (2013). Standardization of surface potential measurements of graphene domains. Scientific Reports, 3, 2597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarbock, G., Lynch, S., Ammann, A., & Ringer, S. (2014). Mindfulness for Therapists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Carels, N., Sujatha, M., & Bahadur, B. (Eds.). (2012). Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop: Volume 1: Farming, Economics and Biofuel. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Scheurich, D., & Stuerzlinger, W. (2013). A One-Handed Multi-touch Method for 3D Rotations. In P. Kotzé, G. Marsden, G. Lindgaard, J. Wesson, & M. Winckler (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 56–69). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 25). Bacterial Communication Signals Altered To Battle Pancreatic Cancer. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1974). Getting the New Communities Program Started: Progress and Problems (No. B-170971). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saperstein, A. M. (2009). Susceptibility to smoking and nicotine dependence in schizophrenia (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

Kelly, M. (1993, February 2). White House Memo; President’s Early Troubles Rooted in Party’s Old Strains. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingerich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gingerich, 2000; Treseder & Holden, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Treseder & Holden, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Panchal et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Abbreviation	J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.
ISSN (online)	1942-2466
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental Chemistry Global and Planetary Change