How to format your references using the Geodiversitas citation style

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

Booth B.B. 2015. — Climate change. Why the Pacific is cool. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6225): 952

A journal article with 2 authors

Lutter C.K. & Lutter R. 2012. — Fetal and early childhood undernutrition, mortality, and lifelong health. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6101): 1495–1499

A journal article with 3 authors

Victor D.G., House J.C. & Joy S. 2005. — Climate. A Madisonian approach to climate policy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5742): 1820–1821

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hutson M.S., Tokutake Y., Chang M.-S., Bloor J.W., Venakides S., Kiehart D.P. & Edwards G.S. 2003. — Forces for morphogenesis investigated with laser microsurgery and quantitative modeling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5616): 145–149

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty R.A. 2011. — Enzyme Kinetics: Rapid-Equilibrium Enzyme Kinetics. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Methods of Biochemical Analysis).

An edited book

Pesch, D., Timm-Giel, A., Calvo, R. A., Wenning, B.-L. & Pentikousis, K. (Eds.) 2013. — Mobile Networks and Management: 5th International Conference, MONAMI 2013, Cork, Ireland, September 23-25, 2013, Revised Selected PapersVol. 125. Cham, Springer International Publishing. XII, 288 p. 138 illus p. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

A chapter in an edited book

Murphy K.R. 2015. — Physical Abilities, in Hanvey C. & Sady K. (eds.), Practitioner’s Guide to Legal Issues in Organizations. Cham, Springer International Publishing. p. 111–126.

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 Geodiversitas.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. — A Supervolcano Stopped An Earthquake Dead In Its Tracks In Japan This YearAvailable from [accessed 30 October 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 1977. — More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science Programs N�PSAD-77-114. 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

Peters W.C. 2017. — An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Critical Technology Developments and Technology Maturity Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC, George Washington 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

Montague J. 2017. — For the Obscure, a Welcome Payday. New York Times: B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Booth 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lutter & Lutter 2012; Booth 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lutter & Lutter 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hutson et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geodiversitas
ISSN (print)	1280-9659
ISSN (online)	1638-9395
Scope