How to format your references using the Geoforum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geoforum. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sheen, J., 2002. Phosphorelay and transcription control in cytokinin signal transduction. Science 296, 1650–1652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoo, B.C., Lubec, G., 2001. p25 protein in neurodegeneration. Nature 411, 763–4; discussion 764-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J., Abdeen, A.A., Kilian, K.A., 2014. Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment. Sci. Rep. 4, 5188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuroda, A., Nomura, K., Ohtomo, R., Kato, J., Ikeda, T., Takiguchi, N., Ohtake, H., Kornberg, A., 2001. Role of inorganic polyphosphate in promoting ribosomal protein degradation by the Lon protease in E. coli. Science 293, 705–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad, K., 2005. Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Domingos Padula, A., Silveira dos Santos, M., Benedetti Santos, O.I., Borenstein, D. (Eds.), 2014. Liquid Biofuels: Emergence, Development and Prospects, Lecture Notes in Energy. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Ooya, T., Lee, S.C., Huh, K.M., Park, K., 2006. Hydrotropic Nanocarriers for Poorly Soluble Drugs, in: Mozafari, M.R. (Ed.), Nanocarrier Technologies: Frontiers of Nanotherapy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–73.

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 Geoforum.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Do We Really Only Use 10% Of Our Brain? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/do-we-really-only-use-10-our-brain/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2002. Aviation Finance: Distribution of Airport Grant Funds Complied with Statutory Requirements (No. GAO-02-283). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, L., 2017. The Relationship between Mock Jurors’ Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Billard, M., 2010. Just 30 Pieces of Glamour. New York Times E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sheen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Sheen, 2002; Yoo and Lubec, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Yoo and Lubec, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kuroda et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoforum
Abbreviation	Geoforum
ISSN (print)	0016-7185
Scope	Sociology and Political Science