How to format your references using the Annals of the Association of American Geographers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Jayaraman, K. S. 2003. India budgets for boost in research. Nature 422 (6927):6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haldane, A. G., and R. M. May. 2011. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems. Nature 469 (7330):351–355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker, J. S., S. M. Roe, and D. Barford. 2005. Structural insights into mRNA recognition from a PIWI domain-siRNA guide complex. Nature 434 (7033):663–666.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Yanagida, S., K. Taniue, H. Sugimasa, E. Nasu, Y. Takeda, M. Kobayashi, T. Yamamoto, A. Okamoto, and T. Akiyama. 2013. ASBEL, an ANA/BTG3 antisense transcript required for tumorigenicity of ovarian carcinoma. Scientific reports 3:1305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C. 2012. An Introduction to LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Różewski, P., D. Novikov, N. Bakhtadze, and O. Zaikin eds. 2016. New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-based Production. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hilgetag, C. C., and M. Kaiser. 2008. Organization and Function of Complex Cortical Networks. In Lectures in Supercomputational Neurosciences: Dynamics in Complex Brain Networks, Understanding Complex Systems., eds. P. B. Graben, C. Zhou, M. Thiel, and J. Kurths, 107–133. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2017. This Robotic Flying Bat Could Be The Future Of Drones. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-flying-bat-future-drones/ (last accessed 30 October 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. 2014. Information Technology: Implementing Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve the Management of Investments. Washington, DC: 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

Mullican, C. D. 2012. Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks.

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

Pilon, M. 2013. Trainer Denies Giving Banned Drugs to Jamaican Sprinters. New York Times 18 July:B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jayaraman 2003; Haldane and May 2011).

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

Two authors: (Haldane and May 2011)
Three authors: (Parker, Roe, and Barford 2005)
4 or more authors: (Yanagida et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Abbreviation	Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr.
ISSN (print)	0004-5608
ISSN (online)	1467-8306
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development