How to format your references using the Biogeosciences Discussions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biogeosciences 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 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

Schiermeier, Q.: Austrian physics meeting passes without boycott, Nature, 406, 7, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jesson, L. K. and Barrett, S. C. H.: Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers, Nature, 417, 707, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornalley, D. J. R., Elderfield, H., and McCave, I. N.: Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic, Nature, 457, 711–714, 2009.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Perfettini, H., Avouac, J.-P., Tavera, H., Kositsky, A., Nocquet, J.-M., Bondoux, F., Chlieh, M., Sladen, A., Audin, L., Farber, D. L., and Soler, P.: Seismic and aseismic slip on the central Peru megathrust, Nature, 465, 78–81, 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Riches, J.: Galatians Through the Centuries, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2008.

An edited book

Orailoglu, A., Ugurdag, H. F., Silveira, L. M., Margala, M., and Reis, R. (Eds.): VLSI-SoC: At the Crossroads of Emerging Trends: 21st IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, October 6-9, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIV, 267 p. 177 illus p., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Anshakov, O. M. and Gergely, T.: Constructing a Model of a Cognizing Agent, in: Cognitive Reasoning: A Formal Approach, edited by: Anshakov, O. M., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 41–49, 2010.

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 Biogeosciences Discussions.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Some Of The Obscure Diseases “Rare Disease Day” Wants You To Know About, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-of-the-obscure-diseases-rare-disease-day-wants-you-to-know-about/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2017., 2017.

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: Army Medium Trucks: Information on Delivery Delays and Corrosion Problems, NSIAD-99-26, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shakya, S.: Characterization of Interaction of Calmodulin and its Chimeras with Orai1, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2013.

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

Saslow, L.: Brentwood Sets a Dress Code Into Motion, , New York Times9th October14LI3, 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jesson and Barrett, 2002; Schiermeier, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Jesson and Barrett, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Perfettini et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biogeosciences Discussions
Abbreviation	Biogeosci. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1810-6285
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Earth-Surface Processes