How to format your references using the Earth System Science Data citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Earth System Science Data. 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

Butterworth, A.: The moral problem with commercial seal hunting, Nature, 509, 9, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Larrick, R. P. and Soll, J. B.: Economics. The MPG illusion, Science, 320, 1593–1594, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dulac, C., O’Connell, L. A., and Wu, Z.: Neural control of maternal and paternal behaviors, Science, 345, 765–770, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Williams, R. S. B., Cheng, L., Mudge, A. W., and Harwood, A. J.: A common mechanism of action for three mood-stabilizing drugs, Nature, 417, 292–295, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, C. G. D. and Dattani, M. T.: Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Charney, N. (Ed.): Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, XXVIII, 364 p p., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Barth, J.: Embedded DRAM in Nano-scale Technologies, in: Embedded Memories for Nano-Scale VLSIs, edited by: Zhang, K., Springer US, Boston, MA, 127–175, 2009.

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 System Science Data.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: A New Way To Test Your ‘Biological’ Age, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-way-test-your-biological-age/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: Motor Carrier Safety: New Applicant Reviews Should Expand to Identify Freight Carriers Evading Detection, GAO-12-364, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanchez, Y.: Effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy for Latino families: A secondary analysis of existing data, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Greenhouse, L.: JUSTICES, RULING 5-4, ENDORSE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN GUN, , New York Times27th JuneA1, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butterworth, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Butterworth, 2014; Larrick and Soll, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Larrick and Soll, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Williams et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth System Science Data
Abbreviation	Earth Syst. Sci. Data
ISSN (print)	1866-3508
ISSN (online)	1866-3516
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences