How to format your references using the Catena citation style

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

Karoly, D.J., 2003. Atmospheric science. Ozone and climate change. Science 302, 236–237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowrance, W.W., Collins, F.S., 2007. Ethics. Identifiability in genomic research. Science 317, 600–602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., Urrego, D.H., 2004. 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hot spot. Science 303, 827–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cui, X.D., Primak, A., Zarate, X., Tomfohr, J., Sankey, O.F., Moore, A.L., Moore, T.A., Gust, D., Harris, G., Lindsay, S.M., 2001. Reproducible measurement of single-molecule conductivity. Science 294, 571–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer, K.P., 2016. The Future of Pension Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pertwee, R.G. (Ed.), 2015. Endocannabinoids, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Botsch, M., Bommes, D., Kobbelt, L., 2005. Efficient Linear System Solvers for Mesh Processing, in: Martin, R., Bez, H., Sabin, M. (Eds.), Mathematics of Surfaces XI: 11th IMA International Conference, Loughborough, UK, September 5-7, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 62–83.

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 Catena.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. New Gloves Could Let You Feel In Virtual Reality [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/haptic-gloves-could-let-you-feel-virtual-reality/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Air Traffic Control: FAA Should Avoid Duplication in Procuring a Traffic Management System (No. IMTEC-88-8). 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

Forlano, L., 2008. When code meets place: Collaboration and innovation at WiFi hotspots (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Dwyer, K.P., 2005. Taking Action Against Discrimination. New York Times 103.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Karoly, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Karoly, 2003; Lowrance and Collins, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lowrance and Collins, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Cui et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Catena
Abbreviation	Catena
ISSN (print)	0341-8162
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes