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

Roccanova, L. (2000). Ph.D.’s as Science Teachers: Notes from the Field. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5494), 1098a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strasser, B. J., & Dubochet, J. (2005). Obituary: Eduard Kellenberger (1920-2004). Nature, 433(7028), 817.

A journal article with 3 authors

Filchak, K. E., Roethele, J. B., & Feder, J. L. (2000). Natural selection and sympatric divergence in the apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella. Nature, 407(6805), 739–742.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tyagi, A., Kapoor, P., Kumar, R., Chaudhary, K., Gautam, A., & Raghava, G. P. S. (2013). In silico models for designing and discovering novel anticancer peptides. Scientific Reports, 3, 2984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leroy, L. (2016). Eyestrain Reduction in Stereoscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Espinosa, J. (2005). Fuzzy Logic, Identification and Predictive Control (J. Vandewalle & V. Wertz, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Osakada, F., & Takahashi, M. (2016). Stem Cells in the Developing and Adult Nervous System. In G. Steinhoff (Ed.), Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 1. Biology of Tissue Regeneration (pp. 123–149). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, R. (2017, May 19). Mount St Helens Is Rumbling Again, So Should We Be Worried? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-st-helens-is-rumbling-again-so-should-we-be-worried/

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. (2004). Federal Communications Commission: Federal Advisory Committees Follow Requirements, but FCC Should Improve Its Process for Appointing Committee Members (GAO-05-36). 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

Wood, E. D. (2017). A Study of the Effect of Grouping Students and Results on the Ohio Achievement Assessment for Reading [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Dynarski, S. (2015, August 21). To Gain a College Student, Eliminate a Form. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roccanova, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Roccanova, 2000; Strasser & Dubochet, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Strasser & Dubochet, 2005)
Three authors: (Filchak et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Tyagi et al., 2013)

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