How to format your references using the Applied Geomatics citation style

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

Brinster RL (2007) Male germline stem cells: from mice to men. Science 316:404–405

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberles SD, Buck LB (2006) A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. Nature 442:645–650

A journal article with 3 authors

Munsky B, Neuert G, van Oudenaarden A (2012) Using gene expression noise to understand gene regulation. Science 336:183–187

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim H, Doan VD, Cho WJ, et al (2014) Anisotropic charge distribution and anisotropic van der Waals radius leading to intriguing anisotropic noncovalent interactions. Sci Rep 4:5826

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey WM (2010) Fusion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Lewis R (2013) iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Fourth Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Houdebine L-M (2012) Transgenics transgenic(s) : Alternative Gene Transfer Methods transgenic(s) alternative gene transfer methods. In: Meyers RA (ed) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 10895–10923

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 Applied Geomatics.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Male Spiders Perform Oral Sex On Females. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spiders-perform-oral-sex-females/. 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 (2003) Title I: Although Definitions of Administrative Expenditures Vary, Almost All Districts Studied Spent Less Than 10 Percent on Administration. 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

Lee S (2013) Control-display alignment modulates dimensional salience. 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

Pilon M, Lehren AW (2014) Modified Training for Children Stirs New Debates. New York Times B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brinster 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Liberles and Buck 2006; Brinster 2007).

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

Two authors: (Liberles and Buck 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Geomatics
ISSN (print)	1866-9298
ISSN (online)	1866-928X
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Engineering (miscellaneous) Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development