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

Weaver, Jason F. 2013. Chemistry. Entropies of adsorbed molecules exceed expectations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunlycke, Daniel, and Paul E. Sheehan. 2011. Materials science. Local peeling of graphene. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 1146–1147.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ge, Dong-Zheng, Yan Sheng, and Xun Cai. 2014. Combined staurosporine and retinoic acid induces differentiation in retinoic acid resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia cell lines. Scientific reports 4: 4821.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Sufang, Chenglong Xie, Qiang Wang, and Zhenguo Liu. 2014. Interactions of CaMKII with dopamine D2 receptors: roles in levodopa-induced dyskinesia in 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned Parkinson’s rats. Scientific reports 4: 6811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boddy, Richard, and Gordon Smith. 2010. Effective Experimentation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Henderson-Sellers, Brian. 2014. Situational Method Engineering. Edited by Jolita Ralyté, Pär J. Ågerfalk, and Matti Rossi. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Takahama, Tetsuyuki, and Setsuko Sakai. 2008. Constrained Optimization by ε Constrained Differential Evolution with Dynamic ε-Level Control. In Advances in Differential Evolution, ed. Uday K. Chakraborty, 139–154. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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, Danielle. 2017. New Zealand’s Alpine Fault Reveals Extreme Underground Heat And Fluid Pressure. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 22.

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. 2000. State Department: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Management Issues. T-NSIAD-00-124. 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

Berkowitz, Adam Eric. 2015. Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Crow, Kelly. 2001. Preserving the Work of the Artful Tagger. New York Times, February 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weaver 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gunlycke and Sheehan 2011; Weaver 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gunlycke and Sheehan 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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