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

Kerr, R.A. PALEONTOLOGY: Biggest Extinction Hit Land and Sea. Science 2000, 289, 1666b–1667b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chien, P.; Weissman, J.S. Conformational Diversity in a Yeast Prion Dictates Its Seeding Specificity. Nature 2001, 410, 223–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, G.; Jiang, X.; Wang, E. Tubular Graphite Cones. Science 2003, 300, 472–474.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, H.-X.; Wang, G.-M.; Tao, Z.; Cui, T.J. High-Directivity Emissions with Flexible Beam Numbers and Beam Directions Using Gradient-Refractive-Index Fractal Metamaterial. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyshevski, S.E. Engineering and Scientific Computations Using MATLAB®; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471723868.

An edited book

Sengupta, A. Productivity, Separability and Deprivation: A Study on Female Workers in the Indian Informal Service Sector; Datta, S.K., Mondal, S., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Economics; Springer India: New Delhi, 2013; ISBN 9788132210559.

A chapter in an edited book

Quintero, O.A.; Moore, J.E.; Yengo, C.M. Basics of the Cytoskeleton: Myosins. In Cytoskeleton and Human Disease; Kavallaris, M., Ed.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2012; pp. 73–100 ISBN 9781617797873.

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

Fang, J. Astronomers Catch Surprise “Eclipse” Of Jupiter’s Moons Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-jupiters-moons-just-crossed-over-another-one/ (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 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Improvements to Enterprise Architecture Development and Implementation Efforts Needed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solano, E.A. Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola, Ope 11, No.4 A Compositional and Historical Perspective. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, 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

Feeney, K. This ‘Green’ Is Not a Color. New York Times 2009, NJ13.

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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