How to format your references using the Landslides citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Landslides. 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	Download the output style file
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

Arntzen CJ (2008) Plant science. Using tobacco to treat cancer. Science 321:1052–1053

A journal article with 2 authors

Norris DP, Grimes DT (2012) Developmental biology. Cilia discern left from right. Science 338:206–207

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko M, Schaefer JA, Tautz FS (2003) Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature 425:602–605

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Proskurowski G, Lilley MD, Seewald JS, et al (2008) Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field. Science 319:604–607

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher MJ (2010) Retirement Portfolios. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Claesen L, Sanz-Pascual M-T, Reis R, Sarmiento-Reyes A (eds) (2015) VLSI-SoC: Internet of Things Foundations: 22nd IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2014, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, October 6-8, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

van Glabbeek RJ, Goltz U, Schicke J-W (2011) On Causal Semantics of Petri Nets. In: Katoen J-P, König B (eds) CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory: 22nd International Conference, CONCUR 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 6-9, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–59

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 Landslides.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Comets or Volcanoes? Scientists Are Changing Their Minds About How the Earth’s Water Got Here. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/comets-or-volcanoes-scientists-are-changing-their-minds-about-how-the-earths-water-got-here/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Efforts to Ensure Continued Delivery of Key State-Administered Benefits. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lawrence BH (2015) Evaluation of a cultural practice and 2,4-D-based herbicide programs for glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth management. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Stewart JB (2017) 2016’s Top Investors Offer Their Insights Into the Year Ahead. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arntzen 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Arntzen 2008; Norris and Grimes 2012).

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

Two authors: (Norris and Grimes 2012)
Three or more authors: (Proskurowski et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Landslides
Abbreviation	Landslides
ISSN (print)	1612-510X
ISSN (online)	1612-5118
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology