How to format your references using the Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences (EJES). 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

Smith, J. 2000. Nice work--but is it science? Nature, 408(6810), 293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walmsley, I. A. and Raymer, M. G. 2005. Applied physics. Toward quantum-information processing with photons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1733–1734.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reyes-Lamothe, R., Sherratt, D. J. and Leake, M. C. 2010. Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 498–501.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Morita, M., Chen, J., Fujino, M., Kitazawa, Y., Sugioka, A., Zhong, L., et al. 2014. Identification of microRNAs involved in acute rejection and spontaneous tolerance in murine hepatic allografts. Scientific reports, 4, 6649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belliotti, R. A. 2011. Dante’s Deadly Sins. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Purshouse, R. C., Fleming, P. J., Fonseca, C. M., Greco, S. and Shaw, J. (eds). 2013. Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 7th International Conference, EMO 2013, Sheffield, UK, March 19-22, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Snoeyink, J. 2011. Degree-Driven Design for Correct Geometric Algorithms. In Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2011, Jinhua, China, May 28-31, 2011. Proceedings (Atallah, M., Li, X.-Y. and Zhu, B., eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 8–9.

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 Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Nearby Star Has Three Planets Slightly Larger Than Earth, With One In Habitable Zone. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-star-has-three-planets-slightly-larger-earth-one-habitable-zone/ (accessed 2018-10-30)

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. 1988. Bridge Improvements: States Exercise Discretion in Selecting Projects Using Federal-Aid Funds. RCED-89-8. 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

Mills, C. C. 2017. Olfaction and Exhibition: Assessing the Impact of Scent in Museums on Exhibit Engagement, Learning and Empathy. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

St. John Kelly, E. 1994. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smith 2000; Walmsley and Raymer 2005).

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

Two authors: (Walmsley and Raymer 2005)
Three or more authors: (Morita et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
ISSN (print)	1736-4728
ISSN (online)	1736-7557
Scope