How to format your references using the Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Blair, H. T. (2014). Neuroscience. Charting the islands of memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6173), 846–847.
A journal article with 2 authors
Lomakin, I. B., & Steitz, T. A. (2013). The initiation of mammalian protein synthesis and mRNA scanning mechanism. Nature, 500(7462), 307–311.
A journal article with 3 authors
Yi, M., Hong, N., & Hong, Y. (2009). Generation of medaka fish haploid embryonic stem cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 430–433.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Ch’ng, J.-H., Mok, S., Bozdech, Z., Lear, M. J., Boudhar, A., Russell, B., Nosten, F., & Tan, K. S.-W. (2013). A whole cell pathway screen reveals seven novel chemosensitizers to combat chloroquine resistant malaria. Scientific Reports, 3, 1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Curtis, P. M. (2011). Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Patel-Schneider, P. F., Pan, Y., Hitzler, P., Mika, P., Zhang, L., Pan, J. Z., Horrocks, I., & Glimm, B. (Eds.). (2010). The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010: 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Vol. 6497). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Donadio, V. (2016). Visualization of the Cutaneous Axonal Endings of CLTMs. In H. Olausson, J. Wessberg, I. Morrison, & F. McGlone (Eds.), Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents (pp. 61–68). 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 Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 1). Buzz Aldrin – The President That Sends Us To Mars Will Be Remembered For 1,000s Of Years. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/buzz-aldrin-tells-iflscience-why-he-really-really-wants-us-colonize-mars/

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. (2005). Transportation Security Administration: Clear Policies and Oversight Needed for Designation of Sensitive Security Information (GAO-05-677). 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
Breckenridge, C. (2017). Measuring Object and Attribute Salience in 2014 Illinois Gubernatorial Endorsements [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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
Widdicombe, B. (2017, June 24). Humming Along With the Dead. New York Times, ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blair, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Blair, 2014; Lomakin & Steitz, 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Lomakin & Steitz, 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Ch’ng et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleGeografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography
AbbreviationGeogr. Tidsskr.
ISSN (print)0016-7223
ISSN (online)1903-2471
ScopeGeneral Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geography, Planning and Development

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