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

Hallonsten O (2015) Europe needs fresh focus on big-science projects. Nature 518:275

A journal article with 2 authors

Schadt E, Chang R (2012) Genetics. A GPS for navigating DNA. Science 337:1179–1180

A journal article with 3 authors

Makovicky PJ, Apesteguía S, Agnolín FL (2005) The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America. Nature 437:1007–1011

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J-S, Wang G, Feng X-Q, et al (2013) Hierarchical chirality transfer in the growth of Towel Gourd tendrils. Sci Rep 3:3102

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulkarni S, Harman G (2011) An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kurosu M (ed) (2011) Human Centered Design: Second International Conference, HCD 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Heinrich B (2008) Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers. In: Zabel H, Bader SD (eds) Magnetic Heterostructures: Advances and Perspectives in Spinstructures and Spintransport. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 185–250

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

Andrew E (2015) The Dress Returns: This Time With Science! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dress/. 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 (2005) Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences. 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

Parsons JR (2010) Throwing a wrench in the translational machinery: Discovery of RNA ligands by fluorescence techniques. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Creswell J, Gustines GG (2014) A High-End Tussle. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hallonsten 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schadt and Chang 2012; Hallonsten 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schadt and Chang 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

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