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

Montgomery S (2004) Of towers, walls, and fields: perspectives on language in science. Science 303:1333–1335

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Brody H (2015) Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific. Nature 519:S49

A journal article with 3 authors

James S, Simmons CP, James AA (2011) Ecology. Mosquito trials. Science 334:771–772

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang L, Yu J, Hao X, et al (2014) Influence of stress in GaN crystals grown by HVPE on MOCVD-GaN/6H-SiC substrate. Sci Rep 4:4179

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burghardt G, Walls B (2011) Managed Futures for Institutional Investors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Müller JP, Ketter W, Kaminka G, et al (eds) (2015) Multiagent System Technologies: 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28 - 30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Wilkinson T, Butler M, Colley J (2014) A Systematic Approach to Requirements Driven Test Generation for Safety Critical Systems. In: Ortmeier F, Rauzy A (eds) Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 4th International Symposium, IMBSA 2014, Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 43–56

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) NASA Still Plans To Practice Saving Earth From An Asteroid, Even Without ESA’s Help. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-still-plans-to-practice-saving-earth-from-an-asteroid-even-without-esas-help/. 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 (1993) Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems. 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

Lindsey MM (2010) Sampling frequency for semi-arid streams and rivers: Implications for national parks in the Sonoran Desert Network. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Vecsey G (2011) Best Seat in House? It’s in the House. New York Times SP7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery 2004; May and Brody 2015).

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

Two authors: (May and Brody 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang 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

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