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

Gies, H. (2007). Chemistry. Charge flipping and beyond. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5815), 1087–1088.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapira, P., & Wang, J. (2010). Follow the money. Nature, 468(7324), 627–628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falnes, P. Ø., Johansen, R. F., & Seeberg, E. (2002). AlkB-mediated oxidative demethylation reverses DNA damage in Escherichia coli. Nature, 419(6903), 178–182.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kumar, P., Wikfeldt, K. T., Schlesinger, D., Pettersson, L. G. M., & Stanley, H. E. (2013). The Boson peak in supercooled water. Scientific Reports, 3, 1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe, E. H. (2014). Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Romero, J., McDermott, J., & Correia, J. (Eds.). (2014). Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: Third European Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8601). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Majeed, H., & Ryan, C. (2006). A Less Destructive, Context-Aware Crossover Operator for GP. In P. Collet, M. Tomassini, M. Ebner, S. Gustafson, & A. Ekárt (Eds.), Genetic Programming: 9th European Conference, EuroGP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 36–48). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 3). Warning Of “1 in 100” San Andreas Fault Earthquake Prompts Concerns. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/warning-of-1-in-100-san-andreas-fault-earthquake-prompts-concerns/

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). No Child Left Behind Act: Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies (GAO-05-879). 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

Smith, B. (2013). Analysis of hydraulic and financial operations of a recycled water system: A case study of the Orange County water district’s green acres project [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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, June 30). Wimbledon’s Qualifying Tournament Is Both 3½ Miles and a World Away. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gies, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gies, 2007; Shapira & Wang, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shapira & Wang, 2010)
Three authors: (Falnes et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Kumar 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