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

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

Chen, X.: A microRNA as a translational repressor of APETALA2 in Arabidopsis flower development, Science, 303, 2022–2025, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buss, J. A. and Agapie, T.: Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site, Nature, 529, 72–75, 2016.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lobell, D. B., Schlenker, W., and Costa-Roberts, J.: Climate trends and global crop production since 1980, Science, 333, 616–620, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Cornelissen, J. J., Donners, J. J., de Gelder, R., Graswinckel, W. S., Metselaar, G. A., Rowan, A. E., Sommerdijk, N. A., and Nolte, R. J.: beta -Helical polymers from isocyanopeptides, Science, 293, 676–680, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaffe, J.: Flip the Funnel, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Liu, X. (Ed.): Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VII, 569 p. 10 illus p., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Falez, F. and Papalia, M.: Le vie di accesso nelle artroprotesi di ginocchio di primo impianto, in: La protesi di ginocchio di primo impianto, edited by: Pace, N., Springer, Milano, 63–82, 2005.

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 Discussions.

Blog post

Fang, J.: City Birds Have Shorter Telomeres, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/city-birds-have-shorter-telomeres/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2016., 2016.

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: Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of United and Continental Airlines, GAO-10-778T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ochse, A. R.: Targeted Killing, Drones and International Law: How U.S. Practice is Shaping International Law, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

Delreal, J. A. and Bromwich, J. E.: Suspect, an Unmoored Retiree, Kept Quiet and Gambled Often, , New York Times2nd OctoberA1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Buss and Agapie, 2016; Chen, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Buss and Agapie, 2016)
Three or more authors: (Cornelissen et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Earth System Science Data Discussions
Abbreviation	Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1866-3591
Scope