How to format your references using the The Cryosphere Discussions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Cryosphere Discussions. 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

Al-Hashimi, H. M.: Biochemistry. Exciting structures, Science, 329, 1295–1296, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milligan, A. J. and Morel, F. M. M.: A proton buffering role for silica in diatoms, Science, 297, 1848–1850, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

von Melchner, L., Pallas, S. L., and Sur, M.: Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway, Nature, 404, 871–876, 2000.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Colantonio, J. R., Vermot, J., Wu, D., Langenbacher, A. D., Fraser, S., Chen, J.-N., and Hill, K. L.: The dynein regulatory complex is required for ciliary motility and otolith biogenesis in the inner ear, Nature, 457, 205–209, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shover, L.: Trading Options in Turbulent Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Yang, L. T., Zhou, X., Zhao, W., Wu, Z., Zhu, Y., and Lin, M. (Eds.): Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXVIII, 784 p pp., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Xi, H., Lee, S., and Son, Y.-J.: An Integrated Pedestrian Behavior Model Based on Extended Decision Field Theory and Social Force Model, in: Human-in-the-Loop Simulations: Methods and Practice, edited by: Rothrock, L. and Narayanan, S., Springer, London, 69–95, 2011.

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 The Cryosphere Discussions.

Blog post

Shark-Counting Divers Off Costa Rica Reveal Limits Of Marine Reserves:

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: Auto Safety: Status of NHTSA’s Redesign of Its Crashworthiness Data System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madigan, J. P.: Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008.

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

Santora, M.: Crash Kills 3 College Students on Medical Mission in Honduras, New York Times, 15th January, A23, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Al-Hashimi, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Al-Hashimi, 2010; Milligan and Morel, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Milligan and Morel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Colantonio et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Cryosphere Discussions
ISSN (online)	1994-0440
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology