How to format your references using the International Journal of Sediment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Sediment Research. 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

Trenberth, K. E. (2002). Changes in tropical clouds and radiation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5576), 2095.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Wit, M., & Stankiewicz, J. (2006). Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1917–1921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ragunathan, K., Jih, G., & Moazed, D. (2015). Epigenetics. Epigenetic inheritance uncoupled from sequence-specific recruitment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6230), 1258699.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sliter, D. A., Martinez, J., Hao, L., Chen, X., Sun, N., Fischer, T. D., Burman, J. L., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Narendra, D. P., Cai, H., Borsche, M., Klein, C., & Youle, R. J. (2018). Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation. Nature, 561(7722), 258–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anstädt, T., Keller, I., & Lutz, H. (2010). Intelligente Videoanalyse. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bártolo, P. J. (Ed.). (2011). Stereolithography: Materials, Processes and Applications. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, D. S., & Yadav, J. S. (2007). Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting Trials. In J. Saw, J. E. Exaire, D. S. Lee, & J. S. Yadav (Eds.), Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention (pp. 47–63). Humana Press.

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 International Journal of Sediment Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 3). Empire State Building Lights Up With Images Of Endangered Animals. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/over-160-endangered-animals-projected-empire-state-building-raise-awareness-mass/

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. (2007). Federal Aviation Administration: Viability of Current Funding Structure for Aviation Activities and Observations on Funding Provisions of Reauthorization Proposals (GAO-07-1104T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ochoa-Bontemps, R. S. (2012). Rebuilding the Broken Mirror: An Imaginal Approach to the Multicultural Self [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Crow, K. (2002, March 3). The Bunker, an Orphan, Finds a Temporary Home. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trenberth, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (de Wit & Stankiewicz, 2006; Trenberth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (de Wit & Stankiewicz, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sliter et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Sediment Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sediment Res.
ISSN (print)	1001-6279
Scope