How to format your references using the Geoheritage citation style

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

Sun T-P (2014) Plant Science. Sex and the single fern. Science 346:423–424

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard PJ, Ratcliffe PJ (2009) Cancer. Puzzling patterns of predisposition. Science 324:192–194

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold M, Elliott T, Moorbath S (2011) The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature 477:195–198

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bukowski R, Szalewicz K, Groenenboom GC, van der Avoird A (2007) Predictions of the properties of water from first principles. Science 315:1249–1252

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karamalidis AK, Dzombak DA (2010) Surface Complexation Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Asea AAA, Kaur P, Calderwood SK (eds) (2016) Heat Shock Proteins and Plants. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chiappero-Martinetti E, von Jacobi N (2012) Light and Shade of Multidimensional Indexes. In: Maggino F, Nuvolati G (eds) Quality of life in Italy: Research and Reflections. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–103

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 Geoheritage.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Blood Test Could Detect Traumatic Brain Injury. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/blood-test-could-detect-traumatic-brain-injury/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. 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

Quintero MC (2017) Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Vecsey G (2009) For Rodriguez, It’s a No-Brainer: Just Play. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sun 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pollard and Ratcliffe 2009; Sun 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pollard and Ratcliffe 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bukowski et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoheritage
Abbreviation	Geoheritage
ISSN (print)	1867-2477
ISSN (online)	1867-2485
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Nature and Landscape Conservation Geography, Planning and Development