How to format your references using the Geographica Helvetica citation style

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

Giles, J.: UK universities face star treatment in funding revamp, Nature, 423, 574, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ihinger, P. D. and Zink, S. I.: Determination of relative growth rates of natural quartz crystals, Nature, 404, 865–869, 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Kritzinger, S., and Skirbekk, V.: Population. The demography of growing European identity, Science, 314, 425, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Contopoulos-Ioannidis, D. G., Alexiou, G. A., Gouvias, T. C., and Ioannidis, J. P. A.: Medicine. Life cycle of translational research for medical interventions, Science, 321, 1298–1299, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R. A., Carew, M. G., and Maksimenko, T.: Micro Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Tromeur-Dervout, D., Brenner, G., Emerson, D. R., and Erhel, J. (Eds.): Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008: Parallel Numerical Methods, Software Development and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 438 p. 233 illus pp., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Trajman, O., Crolotte, A., Steinhoff, D., Nambiar, R. O., and Poess, M.: Database Are Not Toasters: A Framework for Comparing Data Warehouse Appliances, in: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: First TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2009, Lyon, France, August 24-28, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, edited by: Nambiar, R. and Poess, M., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 31–51, 2009.

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 Geographica Helvetica.

Blog post

Great White Sharks Are Being Hunted By Killer Whales In South Africa: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/great-whites-are-being-hunted-by-orca-in-south-africa/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: Social Security: Telephone Busy Signal Rates at Local SSA Field Offices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker, M. T.: Structure-property stress state dependent relationships under varying strain rates, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2009.

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

Kenigsberg, B.: Review: ‘Dying to Know’ How to Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out, New York Times, 25th August, C9, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Giles, 2003; Ihinger and Zink, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ihinger and Zink, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geographica Helvetica
Abbreviation	Geogr. Helv.
ISSN (print)	0016-7312
ISSN (online)	2194-8798
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