How to format your references using the Geographical Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geographical Analysis (GEAN). 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

Graham-Rowe D. (2011). “Biodiversity: Endangered and in demand.” Nature 480(7378), S101-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abercrombie R. E. and Ekström G. (2001). “Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults.” Nature 410(6824), 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gladyshev E. A., Meselson M., and Arkhipova I. R. (2008). “Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5880), 1210–13.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Indovina I. et al. (2005). “Representation of visual gravitational motion in the human vestibular cortex.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5720), 416–19.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl S. and Stenson C. (2013). Introduction to Topology and Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Breslin J. G. (2009). The Social Semantic Web. edited by A. Passant and S. Decker., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dalla Preda M. et al. (2015). “Dynamic Choreographies.” In Coordination Models and Languages: 17th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2015, Held as Part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015, Grenoble, France, June 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, 67–82, edited by T. Holvoet and M. Viroli. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Geographical Analysis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. (2016). “Amputee Gamer Gets Bionic Arm That Has Its Own Drone.” IFLScience.

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. (1972). “Identification of NASA Research and Development Programs Subject to Benefit-Cost Analysis.” 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

Powell J. R. (2013). Ocean fronts in the Southern California Current System and their role in structuring zooplankton distributions, diel vertical migration, and size composition. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Kishkovsky S. (2014). “Rev. Gleb Yakunin, 80, Russian Priest and Dissident.” New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Abercrombie and Ekström, 2001; Graham-Rowe, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Abercrombie and Ekström, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Indovina et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geographical Analysis
ISSN (print)	0016-7363
Scope