How to format your references using the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Earth and Planetary 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	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 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

Raffaelli D. 2002. Ecology. From Elton to mathematics and back again. Science. 296(5570):1035–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Micchelli CA, Perrimon N. 2006. Evidence that stem cells reside in the adult Drosophila midgut epithelium. Nature. 439(7075):475–79

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao M, Dong W, Wang A. 2013. Two-dimensional carbon topological insulators superior to graphene. Sci. Rep. 3:3532

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sukhatme K, Mukharsky Y, Chui T, Pearson D. 2001. Observation of the ideal Josephson effect in superfluid 4He. Nature. 411(6835):280–83

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubil R. 2011. Financial Engineering and Arbitrage in the Financial Markets. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Philipov D, Liefbroer AC, Klobas JE, eds. 2015. Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Müller M, Pfahl D. 2008. Simulation Methods. In Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering, eds. F Shull, J Singer, DIK Sjøberg, pp. 117–52. London: Springer

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 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Astronomers Figure Out Why The Universe Isn’t As Bright As It Should Be. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2004. Computer-Based Patient Records: Sound Planning and Project Management Are Needed to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of VA and DOD Health Data. GAO-04-402T, 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

Guarin Y. 2017. A Postpartum Support Group for Women Experiencing Postpartum Depression: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L. 2008. In a 6-to-3 Vote, Justices Uphold A Voter ID Law. New York Times, April 29, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Raffaelli 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Micchelli & Perrimon 2006; Raffaelli 2002).

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

Two authors: (Micchelli & Perrimon 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sukhatme et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0084-6597
ISSN (online)	1545-4495
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics