How to format your references using the Land citation style

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

Lazer, D. Social Sciences. The Rise of the Social Algorithm. Science 2015, 348, 1090–1091.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szule, J.A.; Coorssen, J.R. Comment on “Transmembrane Segments of Syntaxin Line the Fusion Pore of Ca2+-Triggered Exocytosis.” Science 2004, 306, 813; author reply 813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oye, K.A.; Lawson, J.C.H.; Bubela, T. Drugs: Regulate “home-Brew” Opiates. Nature 2015, 521, 281–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Overpeck, J.T.; Otto-Bliesner, B.L.; Miller, G.H.; Muhs, D.R.; Alley, R.B.; Kiehl, J.T. Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise. Science 2006, 311, 1747–1750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heuer, A. Der Perfekte Tipp; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2012; ISBN 9783527650767.

An edited book

Steinhaus, H. Mathematician for All Seasons: Recollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945–1968); Burns, R.G., Szymaniec, I., Weron, A., Eds.; Vita Mathematica; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 19; ISBN 9783319231013.

A chapter in an edited book

Türkay, M.; Kawai, T.; Sonnewald, M.; Cumberlidge, N. A Brief History of Freshwater Crab Research. In A Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod Crustaceans; Kawai, T., Cumberlidge, N., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 115–126 ISBN 9783319425252.

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 Land.

Blog post

Davis, J. Scientists Reconstruct Most Detailed Life History Of Any Dinosaur Known So Far Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-reconstruct-most-detailed-life-history-any-dinosaur-known-so-far/ (accessed on 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 Managed Care Initiatives; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ochoa-Bontemps, R.S. Rebuilding the Broken Mirror: An Imaginal Approach to the Multicultural Self. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2012.

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

Crow, K. Allowing the Math-Challenged To Savor the Coffee at Tip Time. New York Times 2000, 146.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Land
Abbreviation	Land (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-445X
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