How to format your references using the Geoenvironmental Disasters citation style

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

Wilmot, Carrie M. 2007. Biochemistry. An ancient and intimate partnership. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 379–380.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klose, Robert, and Adrian Bird. 2003. Molecular biology. MeCP2 repression goes nonglobal. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 793–795.

A journal article with 3 authors

Atwood, Jerry L., Leonard J. Barbour, and Agoston Jerga. 2002. Storage of methane and freon by interstitial van der Waals confinement. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 2367–2369.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Saarela, Jeffery M., Hardeep S. Rai, James A. Doyle, Peter K. Endress, Sarah Mathews, Adam D. Marchant, Barbara G. Briggs, and Sean W. Graham. 2007. Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree. Nature 446: 312–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, Yufeng, Xiaoxue Xu, Zhigang Xu, Junqiang Wang, and Hong Cai. 2017. Metallic Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Chen, Jie, Mark Stephens, and Yanyun Man, ed. 2013. The Future of Public Housing: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, Sunhun. 2012. The Dental School We Aspire to Work for, Be Part of, and Invest Our Future in. In Interface Oral Health Science 2011, ed. Keiichi Sasaki, Osamu Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Takahashi, 29–30. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Geoenvironmental Disasters.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. SpaceX Rocket Explosion Mystery Deepens With Sabotage Speculation. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 3.

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. 1987. Rail Abandonments: Abandonment Activity and Shipper Views on Rail Service Loss. RCED-87-82. 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

Garcia, Mayra. 2015. College preparedness program for high school students in South Los Angeles, California: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. Clues to the New Dynamic on the Supreme Court. New York Times, July 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilmot 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Klose and Bird 2003; Wilmot 2007).

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

Two authors: (Klose and Bird 2003)
Three or more authors: (Saarela et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoenvironmental Disasters
ISSN (online)	2197-8670
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