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

Stillman B (2001) DNA replication. Genomic views of genome duplication. Science 294:2301–2304

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwander T, Keller L (2008) Genetic compatibility affects queen and worker caste determination. Science 322:552

A journal article with 3 authors

Paraje G, Sadana R, Karam G (2005) Public health. Increasing international gaps in health-related publications. Science 308:959–960

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Graether SP, Kuiper MJ, Gagné SM, et al (2000) Beta-helix structure and ice-binding properties of a hyperactive antifreeze protein from an insect. Nature 406:325–328

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hallberg MC (2008) Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, USA

An edited book

Cahalane H (ed) (2013) Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy DN, Baik J, Wilson R, Bulmer M (2006) Two-Dimensional Failure Modeling. In: Pham H (ed) Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics. Springer, London, pp 97–111

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

Andrew E (2014) Astronomers directly image a filament of the “cosmic web” for the first time. In: IFLScience. 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 (1972) Fundamental Changes Needed To Achieve Effective Enforcement of Radio Communication Regulations. 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

Joseph S (2009) A comprehensive evaluation of a school system’s grow your own principal preparation program. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Vecsey G (2010) Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. 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 (Stillman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Stillman 2001; Schwander and Keller 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schwander and Keller 2008)
Three or more authors: (Graether et al. 2000)

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

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