How to format your references using the Advances in Geosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Geosciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Leek, P. J.: Applied physics. Storing quantum information in Schrödinger’s cats, Science, 342, 568–569, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lopatin, A. V. and Averianov, A. O.: An aegialodontid upper molar and the evolution of mammal dentition, Science, 313, 1092, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Patkowski, K., Spirko, V., and Szalewicz, K.: On the elusive twelfth vibrational state of beryllium dimer, Science, 326, 1382–1384, 2009.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Finer, M., Jenkins, C. N., Sky, M. A. B., and Pine, J.: Logging concessions enable illegal logging crisis in the Peruvian Amazon, Sci. Rep., 4, 4719, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Z.-G.: Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

Schulzrinne, H.: Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination, edited by: Papadopouli, M., Springer US, Boston, MA, X, 214 p. 124 illus p., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Keller, J. K. and Smith, C. R.: Refining Habitat Specificity, in: Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis, edited by: Smith, C. R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 69–80, 2014.

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 Advances in Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Anomalous Great Basin Climate Record Resolved, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/anomalous-great-basin-climate-record-resolved/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2014., 2014.

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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Needed to Address Credit Union Systems’ Year 2000 Problem, AIMD-98-48, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lai, J.-P.: Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten (PTEN) As A Molecular Target in Lung Epithelial Wound Repair and Protection, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 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

Eligon, J. and Gebeloff, R.: Segregation, the Neighbor That Won’t Leave, , New York Times20th AugustA1, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leek, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Leek, 2013; Lopatin and Averianov, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lopatin and Averianov, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Finer et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Geosciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1680-7340
ISSN (online)	1680-7359
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