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

Brody, H. (2011). Multiple myeloma. Nature, 480(7377), S33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, W., & Yuan, D. (2014). Mesoporous carbon originated from non-permanent porous MOFs for gas storage and CO2/CH4 separation. Scientific Reports, 4, 5711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adams, E. J., Chien, Y.-H., & Garcia, K. C. (2005). Structure of a gammadelta T cell receptor in complex with the nonclassical MHC T22. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5719), 227–231.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

McNeil, B. I., Matear, R. J., Key, R. M., Bullister, J. L., & Sarmiento, J. L. (2003). Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5604), 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P. (2015). E-Enabled Operations Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lopez-Tarruella, A. (Ed.). (2012). Google and the Law: Empirical Approaches to Legal Aspects of Knowledge-Economy Business Models (Vol. 22). The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Miclaus, G. D., & Ples, H. (2014). Coronary Angiography. In H. Ples (Ed.), Atlas of CT Angiography: Normal and Pathologic Findings (pp. 85–129). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, September 22). Spy-Cam Rhinos To Take On Poachers With Devices Hidden In Their Horns. 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. (2017). School Bus Safety: Crash Data Trends and Federal and State Requirements (No. GAO-17-209). 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

Hood, E. P. (2015). Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Hodara, S. (2014, March 16). Two Exhibitions, From Cover to Cover. New York Times, p. CT10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2011; Wang & Yuan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Yuan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (McNeil et al., 2003)

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

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