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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik P (2003) Beyond the helix. Nature 422:927

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu W, Südhof TC (2013) A neural circuit for memory specificity and generalization. Science 339:1290–1295

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu Y, Lee CC, Ribbe MW (2011) Extending the carbon chain: hydrocarbon formation catalyzed by vanadium/molybdenum nitrogenases. Science 333:753–755

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Veldhoen M, Hirota K, Westendorf AM, et al (2008) The aryl hydrocarbon receptor links TH17-cell-mediated autoimmunity to environmental toxins. Nature 453:106–109

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris M (2011) Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

DeLamater J, Ward A (eds) (2013) Handbook of Social Psychology, 2nd ed. 2013. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Goto H (2016) Extensive Area of Topographic Anaglyphs Covering Inland and Seafloor Derived Using a Detailed Digital Elevation Model for Identifying Broad Tectonic Deformations. In: Kamae K (ed) Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 65–74

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

Hale T (2016) Police Use DNA To Create “Sketch” Of Suspected Murderer. 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 (2003) Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage Lessons Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects. 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

Brenner DS (2015) The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Pilon M (2012) Picking Up Tennis Balls, and Attention. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Xu and Südhof 2013).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Südhof 2013)
Three or more authors: (Veldhoen et al. 2008)

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