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

Harris, Jim. 2009. Soil microbial communities and restoration ecology: facilitators or followers? Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 573–574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nakahara, Kiyoshi, and Yasushi Miyashita. 2005. Neuroscience. Understanding intentions: through the looking glass. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 644–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, Melanie H., Hidde L. Ploegh, and Jonathan S. Weissman. 2011. Road to ruin: targeting proteins for degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 1086–1090.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Brown, André E. X., Rustem I. Litvinov, Dennis E. Discher, Prashant K. Purohit, and John W. Weisel. 2009. Multiscale mechanics of fibrin polymer: gel stretching with protein unfolding and loss of water. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 741–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos, Euzeli Cipriano, Jr, and Edison Roberto Cabral da Silva. 2014. ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Van Gorp, Pieter, and Gregor Engels, ed. 2016. Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: 9th International Conference, ICMT 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 4-5, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9765. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schierwater, Bernd, and Kai Kamm. 2010. The Early Evolution of Hox Genes: A Battle of Belief? In Hox Genes: Studies from the 20th to the 21st Century, ed. Jean S. Deutsch, 81–90. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. New Species of Frog Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 7.

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. Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on Fundamental Improvements Needed for Timely Promulgation of Health Program Regulations. HRD-77-58. 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

Pelayo, Aida Yvette. 2017. A program to increase health literacy for older Latino adults residing in La Habra, 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

James, Sarita. 2017. Take Your Baby to Work. New York Times, April 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harris 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Nakahara and Miyashita 2005; Harris 2009).

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

Two authors: (Nakahara and Miyashita 2005)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al. 2009)

About the journal

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