How to format your references using the cultural geographies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for cultural geographies. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
K. R. Foster,
‘Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 308, 2005, 1269–1270.
A journal article with 2 authors
M. de Wit and J. Stankiewicz,
‘Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 311, 2006, 1917–1921.
A journal article with 3 authors
W. Jiang, F. T. Birk and D. Davidović,
‘Effects of confinement and electron transport on magnetic switching in single Co nanoparticles’, Scientific Reports, 3, 2013, 1200.
A journal article with 31 or more authors
S. Akichika, S. Hirano, Y. Shichino, T. Suzuki, H. Nishimasu, R. Ishitani, A. Sugita, Y. Hirose, S. Iwasaki, O. Nureki and T. Suzuki,
‘Cap-specific terminal N6-methylation of RNA by an RNA polymerase II-associated methyltransferase’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
D. Olsen,
The Lean Product Playbook (John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015).
An edited book
P. Ehrenfreund, W. Irvine, T. Owen, L. Becker, J. Blank, J. Brucato, L. Colangeli, S. Derenne, A. Dutrey, D. Despois, A. Lazcano and F. Robert (eds.),
Astrobiology: Future Perspectives (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005), p. XVI, 518 p.
A chapter in an edited book
J. B. Rawlings,
‘Moving Horizon Estimation’, in J. Baillieul and T. Samad (eds), Encyclopedia of Systems and Control (Springer: London, 2015), pp. 799–804.

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 cultural geographies.

Blog post
J. Davis,
Research Ship To Be Purposely Frozen In Arctic Ice To Drift Across The North Pole, IFLScience, 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/research-ship-to-be-purposely-frozen-in-arctic-ice-to-drift-across-the-north-pole/. [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,
Maritime Administration: Improved Program Management Needed to Address Timely Disposal of Obsolete Ships (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
S. K. Mizokami,
Fall risk factors among cane and walker users and non-users (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015).

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
K. Feeney,
‘Middle Eastern Munch’, New York Times, 2008, NJ12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titlecultural geographies
AbbreviationCult. Geogr.
ISSN (print)1474-4740
ISSN (online)1477-0881
ScopeEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Cultural Studies

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