How to format your references using the Differential Geometry and its Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Differential Geometry and its Applications. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

A. Milani, Astronomy. Extraterrestrial material--virtual or real hazards?, Science. 300 (2003) 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Shorter, S. Lindquist, Hsp104 catalyzes formation and elimination of self-replicating Sup35 prion conformers, Science. 304 (2004) 1793–1797.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.J. Lee, P. Dietrich, T.M. Jessell, Genetic ablation reveals that the roof plate is essential for dorsal interneuron specification, Nature. 403 (2000) 734–740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Gauron, C. Rampon, M. Bouzaffour, E. Ipendey, J. Teillon, M. Volovitch, S. Vriz, Sustained production of ROS triggers compensatory proliferation and is required for regeneration to proceed, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Geng, Data Center Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Tartaglia, A. Vannucci, eds., Prevenire gli eventi avversi nella pratica clinica, Springer, Milano, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Sugiura, H. Ohiwa, A Supporting System of Informatics Education for University Freshmen, in: A. Tatnall, T. Okamoto, A. Visscher (Eds.), Knowledge Management for Educational Innovation: IFIP WG 3.7 7th Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management (ITEM), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 23–26, 2006, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 27–32.

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 Differential Geometry and its Applications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Engineers Shutdown Sexist STEM Stereotypes Using #ILookLikeAnEngineer, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/excellent-engineers-shutdown-sexist-stem-stereotypes-using-ilooklikeanengineer/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Aviation Administration: Issues Related to FAA Reform, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Ayres, Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

B. Bartlett, It’s Not Too Late to Fix Fox News, New York Times. (2016) A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Differential Geometry and its Applications
Abbreviation	Differ. Geom. Appl.
ISSN (print)	0926-2245
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Analysis Geometry and Topology