How to format your references using the SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences citation style

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

Krider, P.E. 2003. Atmospheric science. Deciphering the energetics of lightning 299, 669–670.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aderem, A., Ulevitch, R.J. 2000. Toll-like receptors in the induction of the innate immune response 406, 782–787.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng, J.-K., Philippe, R.N., Noel, J.P. 2012. The rise of chemodiversity in plants 336, 1667–1670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Furnes, H., Banerjee, N.R., Muehlenbachs, K., Staudigel, H., de Wit, M. 2004. Early life recorded in archean pillow lavas 304, 578–581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, C., Fincham, B. 2011. Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd),.

An edited book

Kotsis, G., Spaniol, O., editors. 2005. Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: First International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 7-9, 2004. Revised Selected Papers (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer),.

A chapter in an edited book

Akerkar, R., Sajja, P.S. 2016. Fuzzy Logic In Intelligent Techniques for Data Science, P.S. Sajja, ed. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 95–123.

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 SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. The Hunt: A Natural History Series That Challenges Us To Side With The Predators [Internet] 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. 2001. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office),. Report No.: GAO-01-258.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant, D. 2012. A good story changes everything Doctoral dissertation [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine 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

Yablonsky, L. 2008. The Hebrew School , M280.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krider 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Aderem and Ulevitch 2000; Krider 2003).

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

Two authors: (Aderem and Ulevitch 2000)
Three or more authors: (Furnes et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences
ISSN (print)	1674-7313
ISSN (online)	1869-1897
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