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

Hurst JK (2010) Chemistry. In pursuit of water oxidation catalysts for solar fuel production. Science 328:315–316

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyerly AD, Faden RR (2007) Embryonic stem cells. Willingness to donate frozen embryos for stem cell research. Science 317:46–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffecker JF, Elias SA, O’Rourke DH (2014) Anthropology. Out of Beringia? Science 343:979–980

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carlsbecker A, Lee J-Y, Roberts CJ, et al (2010) Cell signalling by microRNA165/6 directs gene dose-dependent root cell fate. Nature 465:316–321

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison DC (2005) Perl Programming for Biologists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Orey M, Jones SA, Branch RM (eds) (2013) Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 37. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Vaka SRK, Bommana MM, Desai D, et al (2014) Excipients for Amorphous Solid Dispersions. In: Shah N, Sandhu H, Choi DS, et al. (eds) Amorphous Solid Dispersions: Theory and Practice. Springer, New York, NY, pp 123–161

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

Luntz S (2016) Star Too Young For Planets Turns Out To Have One. In: IFLScience. 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 (1976) International Cooperation in Energy Research and Development. 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

Underwood VL (2010) The effect of guided reading instruction on reading achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Kishkovsky S (2004) Governor Backs Pardoning Russian Who Killed Chechen Woman. New York Times A5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hurst 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lyerly and Faden 2007; Hurst 2010).

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

Two authors: (Lyerly and Faden 2007)
Three or more authors: (Carlsbecker et al. 2010)

About the journal

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