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

Chapman T (2003) High throughput goes 3D. Nature 425:871

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaia R, Baur J (2008) Materials science. Adaptive composites. Science 319:420–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Taguchi A, Wartschow LM, White MF (2007) Brain IRS2 signaling coordinates life span and nutrient homeostasis. Science 317:369–372

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun P, Zheng F, Wang K, et al (2014) Electro- and magneto-modulated ion transport through graphene oxide membranes. Sci Rep 4:6798

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu J, Dong X, Chen X, et al (2016) Fault Location and Service Restoration for Electrical Distribution Systems. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Kuro-o M (ed) (2012) Endocrine FGFs and Klothos. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Billingsley J (2016) Instances and Contexts of the Head Motif in Britain. In: Hutton R (ed) Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 68–90

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 E (2014) 5 Unsolved Mysteries of Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/5-unsolved-mysteries-space/. 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 (1980) Farmers Home Administration’s ADP Development Project--Current Status and Unresolved Problems. 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

Malkus N (2012) Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Shear MD, Kelly K (2017) Still Civic-Minded, but He’ll Speak for $400,000. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2003; Vaia and Baur 2008).

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

Two authors: (Vaia and Baur 2008)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2014)

About the journal

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