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

Morrison P. 2001. Tales behind the tags. Nature. 413(6855):461.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis CS, McGillicuddy DJ Jr. 2006. Transatlantic abundance of the N2-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Science. 312(5779):1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petta JR, Lu H, Gossard AC. 2010. A coherent beam splitter for electronic spin states. Science. 327(5966):669–672.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hinds BJ, Chopra N, Rantell T, Andrews R, Gavalas V, Bachas LG. 2004. Aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube membranes. Science. 303(5654):62–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalev VA. 2015. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Drebenstedt C, Singhal R, editors. 2014. Mine Planning and Equipment Selection: Proceedings of the 22nd MPES Conference, Dresden, Germany, 14th – 19th October 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsimbalyuk V, Zinkovskii A, Gnesin V, Rzadkowski R, Sokolowski J. 2006. EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF 2D PALISADE FLUTTER FOR THE HARMONIC OSCILLATIONS. In: Hall KC, Kielb RE, Thomas JP, editors. UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS, AEROACOUSTICS AND AEROELASTICITY OF TURBOMACHINES. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 53–63.

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

O`Callaghan J. 2016. Construction Of Huge New Hawaiian Telescope May Be Moved To The Canary Islands Following Protests. 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. 1974. New Navajo Construction Activities on the Navajo and Hopi Joint-Use Area. 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

Dylla AG. 2009. Synthesis, characterization and catalytic studies of bimetallic nanoparticles [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Schulman M. 2017. Julie Klausner Meets a Cult-Movie Legend. New York Times.:ST6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morrison 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Morrison 2001; Davis and McGillicuddy 2006).

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

Two authors: (Davis and McGillicuddy 2006)
Three or more authors: (Hinds et al. 2004)

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

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