How to format your references using the Australian Geographer citation style

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

Pendry, J. B. (2008). Time reversal and negative refraction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5898), 71–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Furukawa, N., & Mima, J. (2014). Multiple and distinct strategies of yeast SNAREs to confer the specificity of membrane fusion. Scientific Reports, 4, 4277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown, C. D., Johnson, D. S., & Sidow, A. (2007). Functional architecture and evolution of transcriptional elements that drive gene coexpression. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1557–1560.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pavithra, C. L. P., Sarada, B. V., Rajulapati, K. V., Rao, T. N., & Sundararajan, G. (2014). A new electrochemical approach for the synthesis of copper-graphene nanocomposite foils with high hardness. Scientific Reports, 4, 4049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chateigner, D. (2013). Combined Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Odaka, K. (Ed.). (2016). The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present and Prospects (1st ed. 2016). Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Boman, J. (2012). On Local Injectivity for Generalized Radon Transforms. In I. Sabadini & D. C. Struppa (Eds.), The Mathematical Legacy of Leon Ehrenpreis (pp. 45–59). 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 Australian Geographer.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 13). Boeing Has Developed The Lightest Metal Ever. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lightest-metal-ever-has-been-developed-boeing/

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. (2011). Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information (GAO-11-659). 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

Wilson, L. A. (2014). An exploratory study of the impact of school-wide positive behavior support on bullying [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, July 28). An Underachieving Symbol of the Mets’ Lost Decade. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pendry, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Furukawa & Mima, 2014; Pendry, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Furukawa & Mima, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pavithra et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Geographer
Abbreviation	Aust. Geogr.
ISSN (print)	0004-9182
ISSN (online)	1465-3311
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development