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

Brody, H. 2013. Gold. Nature 495 (7440):S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castro, J. M., and D. B. Dingwell. 2009. Rapid ascent of rhyolitic magma at Chaitén volcano, Chile. Nature 461 (7265):780–783.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., A. Rollo, and D. P. Tittensor. 2013. Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341 (6143):237.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Ma, H., J. R. Ow, B. C. P. Tan, Z. Goh, B. Feng, Y. H. Loh, M. Fedele, H. Li, and Q. Wu. 2014. The dosage of Patz1 modulates reprogramming process. Scientific reports 4:7519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Rewini, H., and M. Abd-El-Barr. 2004. Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Söderhäll, K. ed. 2010. Invertebrate Immunity. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Carrara, S. 2014. New Concepts in Human Telemetry. In Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices, eds. W. Burleson and S. Carrara, 93–128. New York, NY: 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

Andrew, E. 2015. Here’s What Your House Dust Reveals About You. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/here-s-what-your-house-dust-says-about-you/ (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. 1989. ADP Acquisition: Army Civilian Personnel System. 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

Schutt, R. 2010. Topics in model-based population inference.

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

Tate, J. 2017. The Afterlife. New York Times 23 June:MM17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Castro and Dingwell 2009; Brody 2013).

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

Two authors: (Castro and Dingwell 2009)
Three authors: (Mora, Rollo, and Tittensor 2013)
4 or more authors: (Ma et al. 2014)

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