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

Fields, B.D. Cosmology. A Census of Cosmic Matter. Science 2001, 294, 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reichenbach, A.; Pannicke, T. Neuroscience. A New Glance at Glia. Science 2008, 322, 693–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, L.; Koymen, A.R.; Mohanty, S.K. Crystalline Magnetic Carbon Nanoparticle Assisted Photothermal Delivery into Cells Using CW Near-Infrared Laser Beam. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reddy, R.A.; Zhu, C.; Shao, R.; Korblova, E.; Gong, T.; Shen, Y.; Garcia, E.; Glaser, M.A.; Maclennan, J.E.; Walba, D.M.; et al. Spontaneous Ferroelectric Order in a Bent-Core Smectic Liquid Crystal of Fluid Orthorhombic Layers. Science 2011, 332, 72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, M. Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781118729922.

An edited book

Linear Algebra Thoroughly Explained; Vujičić, M., Sanderson, J., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; ISBN 9783540746379.

A chapter in an edited book

Beigi, P.K.M.; Maverakis, E. Diagnosis. In Acrodermatitis Enteropathica: A Clinician’s Guide; Maverakis, E., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 43–53 ISBN 9783319178189.

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. New Frog Sex Position Observed In India Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-frog-sex-position-observed-in-india/ (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 Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings; 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

Clark, M. How Charter School Teachers Act on Perceived Autonomy: A Qualitative Study of Curricular Decisions. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2011.

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

Markoff, J. A Would-Be Father of A.I. New York Times 2016, B1.

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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