How to format your references using the Geocarto International citation style

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

Treviño M. 2014. Stimulus similarity determines the prevalence of behavioral laterality in a visual discrimination task for mice. Sci Rep. 4:7569.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langlais B, Amit H. 2008. Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science. 321(5897):1784–1785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Afraz S-R, Kiani R, Esteky H. 2006. Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization. Nature. 442(7103):692–695.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Harada Y, Takagaki Y, Sunagawa M, Saito T, Yamada L, Taniguchi H, Shoguchi E, Sawada H. 2008. Mechanism of self-sterility in a hermaphroditic chordate. Science. 320(5875):548–550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jay SA. 2006. High Voltage Electricity Installations. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mehrotra KG, Mohan CK, Oh JC, Varshney PK, Ali M, editors. 2011. Modern Approaches in Applied Intelligence: 24th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2011, Syracuse, NY, USA, June 28 – July 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Möser M, Barros JL. 2009. Aislamiento elástico. In: Barros JL, editor. Ingeniería Acústica: Teoría y Aplicaciones. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 141–166.

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 Geocarto International.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Swirling Cool Jet Reveals A Growing Black Hole. IFLScience.

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. 1996. AIP Funding for the Nation’s Largest Airports. Washington, DC: 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

Boerger EM. 2014. Natural regeneration dynamics of red oak seedlings in Mississippi bottomland forests [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Hodara S. 2015. A Master of Metallurgy. New York Times.:WE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Treviño 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Langlais and Amit 2008; Treviño 2014).

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

Two authors: (Langlais and Amit 2008)
Three or more authors: (Harada et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geocarto International
Abbreviation	Geocarto Int.
ISSN (print)	1010-6049
ISSN (online)	1752-0762
Scope	Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development