How to format your references using the Earth Surface Processes and Landforms citation style

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

Steinman L. 2004. Immune therapy for autoimmune diseases. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 : 212–216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ödman-Govender CJ, Kelleghan D. 2011. SPORE series winner. Astronomical perspectives for young children. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 : 1106–1107.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cross CP, Cyrenne D-LM, Brown GR. 2013. Sex differences in sensation-seeking: a meta-analysis. Scientific reports 3 : 2486.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Taga ME, Larsen NA, Howard-Jones AR, Walsh CT, Walker GC. 2007. BluB cannibalizes flavin to form the lower ligand of vitamin B12. Nature 446 : 449–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul CR. 2011. Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners . John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

McLaurin BT. 2012. Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1: Interpreting Desert and Fluvial Environments . Elliott AC and Torres N (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Deshpande AP. 2010. Oscillatory Shear Rheology for Probing Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Complex Fluids: Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear. In Rheology of Complex Fluids , Krishnan JM, Deshpande AP, and Kumar PBS (eds). Springer: New York, NY; 87–110.

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 Processes and Landforms.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. I Spent The Past Seven Years Counting White Sharks – The Findings Are Troubling. IFLScience [online] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/i-spent-the-past-seven-years-counting-white-sharks-the-findings-are-troubling/ (Accessed 30 October 2018)

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. 1992. Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Incorporation of Existing Data Into EOSDIS . 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

Cacciola JA. 2010. A quantitative study on retaining leadership talent within a naval aviation squadron, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ

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

Feeney K. 2007. Hidden Treasures Of the Food Industry. New York Times 9th December : 14NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Steinman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ödman-Govender and Kelleghan, 2011; Steinman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ödman-Govender and Kelleghan, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Taga et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Abbreviation	Earth Surf. Process.
ISSN (print)	0197-9337
ISSN (online)	1096-9837
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development