How to format your references using the Landslides citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Landslides. 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

Lučić V (2014) Neuroscience: towards unified vesicle endocytosis. Nature 515:207–208

A journal article with 2 authors

Surani A, Tischler J (2012) Stem cells: a sporadic super state. Nature 487:43–45

A journal article with 3 authors

Das G, Talukdar P, Matile S (2002) Fluorometric detection of enzyme activity with synthetic supramolecular pores. Science 298:1600–1602

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Butcher SJ, Grimes JM, Makeyev EV, et al (2001) A mechanism for initiating RNA-dependent RNA polymerization. Nature 410:235–240

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN (2005) Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Combi C (2010) Temporal Information Systems in Medicine. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Pandolfi C, Mugnai S, Azzarello E, et al (2012) The Vibrating Probe Technique in the Study of Root Physiology Under Stress. In: Mancuso S (ed) Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–81

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 Landslides.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Wasp Hijacks Another Parasite Before Rupturing From Its Head. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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) Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts. 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

Holbert M (2010) Knowledge is power (KIP): Kinship caregiver support group program curriculum. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Billard M (2010) A Clog for All Seasons. New York Times E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lučić 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Surani and Tischler 2012; Lučić 2014).

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

Two authors: (Surani and Tischler 2012)
Three or more authors: (Butcher et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Landslides
Abbreviation	Landslides
ISSN (print)	1612-510X
ISSN (online)	1612-5118
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology