How to format your references using the One Earth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for One Earth. 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

Oerlemans, J. (2005). Extracting a climate signal from 169 glacier records. Science 308, 675–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brazeau, M.D., and Ahlberg, P.E. (2006). Tetrapod-like middle ear architecture in a Devonian fish. Nature 439, 318–321.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Y., Forsyth, D.W., and Savage, B. (2009). Convective upwelling in the mantle beneath the Gulf of California. Nature 462, 499–501.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Attwood, B.K., Bourgognon, J.-M., Patel, S., Mucha, M., Schiavon, E., Skrzypiec, A.E., Young, K.W., Shiosaka, S., Korostynski, M., Piechota, M., et al. (2011). Neuropsin cleaves EphB2 in the amygdala to control anxiety. Nature 473, 372–375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman, I., and O’Brien, S. (2017). Popular Culture (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Jain, H., Sinha, A.P., and Vitharana, P. eds. (2011). Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research: 6th International Conference, DESRIST 2011, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 5-6, 2011. Proceedings (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Z., Jiang, Y., and Wang, R. (2015). Ant Colony Optimization with Different Crossover Schemes for Continuous Optimization. In Bio-Inspired Computing -- Theories and Applications: 10th International Conference, BIC-TA 2015 Hefei, China, September 25-28, 2015, Proceedings Communications in Computer and Information Science., M. Gong, P. Linqiang, S. Tao, K. Tang, and X. Zhang, eds. (Springer), pp. 56–62.

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 One Earth.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Why Are Zebras Stripy? IFLScience.

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 (1991). Highway Demonstration Projects: Improved Selection and Funding Controls Are Needed (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manandhar, R. (2017). Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes.

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

Pols, M. (2016). Apples of Contention. New York Times, BR11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	One Earth
ISSN (online)	2590-3322
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