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

Delft, J. MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS: Quantum Dots as Tunable Kondo Impurities. Science 2000, 289, 2064–2065.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodman, S.; Kreeger, K. Getting Organized. Nature 2003, 423, 98–99.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lape, R.; Colquhoun, D.; Sivilotti, L.G. On the Nature of Partial Agonism in the Nicotinic Receptor Superfamily. Nature 2008, 454, 722–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blekhman, R.; Perry, G.H.; Shahbaz, S.; Fiehn, O.; Clark, A.G.; Gilad, Y. Comparative Metabolomics in Primates Reveals the Effects of Diet and Gene Regulatory Variation on Metabolic Divergence. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, R.C. The Hedge Fund Book; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118266465.

An edited book

E-Science and Information Management: Third International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, IMCW 2012, Ankara, Turkey, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings; Kurbanoğlu, S., Al, U., Erdoğan, P.L., Tonta, Y., Uçak, N., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 317; ISBN 9783642332982.

A chapter in an edited book

Razavi, M.; Aliee, F.S. An Approach towards Enterprise Interoperability Assessment. In Enterprise Interoperability: Second IFIP WG 5.8 International Workshop, IWEI 2009, Valencia, Spain, October 13-14, 2009. Proceedings; Poler, R., Sinderen, M. van, Sanchis, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 52–65 ISBN 9783642047497.

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

Andrew, E. Scientist Invents Ice Cream That Changes Color As You Lick It Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientist-invents-ice-cream-changes-color-you-lick-it/ (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 Impacts of Closing Meigs Field Airport; 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

Kim, E.H. A Personal Narrative of a Korean Immigrant to the United States: A Quest for Finding a Niche. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Loomis, G. Opera of the Soul, Sparsely Staged. New York Times 2012, 0.

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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