How to format your references using the Earth Surface Dynamics citation style

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

Holmes, C. D.: Air pollution and forest water use, Nature, 507, E1-2, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lopes, W. A. and Jaeger, H. M.: Hierarchical self-assembly of metal nanostructures on diblock copolymer scaffolds, Nature, 414, 735–738, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mills, C. E., Robins, J. M., and Lipsitch, M.: Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza, Nature, 432, 904–906, 2004.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Rosenberg, E. S., Altfeld, M., Poon, S. H., Phillips, M. N., Wilkes, B. M., Eldridge, R. L., Robbins, G. K., D’Aquila, R. T., Goulder, P. J., and Walker, B. D.: Immune control of HIV-1 after early treatment of acute infection, Nature, 407, 523–526, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pozzilli, P., Lenzi, A., Clarke, B. L., and Young, W. F., Jr: Imaging in Endocrinology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Bauer, E. and Sigrist, M. (Eds.): Non-Centrosymmetric Superconductors: Introduction and Overview, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XI, 357 p. 151 illus p., 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Walther-Franks, B., Herrlich, M., and Malaka, R.: A Multi-touch System for 3D Modelling and Animation, in: Smart Graphics: 11th International Symposium, SG 2011, Bremen, Germany, July 18-20, 2011. Proceedings, edited by: Dickmann, L., Volkmann, G., Malaka, R., Boll, S., Krüger, A., and Olivier, P., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 48–59, 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 Earth Surface Dynamics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Astronomers Discovered Where A Radio Burst Is From For The First Time, 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: Tax Systems Modernization: IRS’ Use of Consultants to Do the TMAC Price/Technical Tradeoff Analysis, IMTEC-93-4BR, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke, K.: Big Five personality traits and astrology: The relationship between the Moon variable and the NEO PI-R, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2012.

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

Kelly, M.: After Waco’s Inferno, an Inquisition That Insists on Rational Answers, , New York Times25th April43, 1993.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Holmes, 2014; Lopes and Jaeger, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lopes and Jaeger, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rosenberg et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Surface Dynamics
Abbreviation	Earth Surf. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	2196-6311
ISSN (online)	2196-632X
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics