How to format your references using the GeoInformatica citation style

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

Rangel TF (2012) Ecology. Amazonian extinction debts. Science 337:162–163

A journal article with 2 authors

Hall A, Stouffer RJ (2001) An abrupt climate event in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation without external forcing. Nature 409:171–174

A journal article with 3 authors

Berger AH, Knudson AG, Pandolfi PP (2011) A continuum model for tumour suppression. Nature 476:163–169

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thompson RC, Olsen Y, Mitchell RP, et al (2004) Lost at sea: where is all the plastic? Science 304:838

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington S (2011) How to Know. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Toebes B, Ferguson R, Markovic MM, Nnamuchi O (2014) The Right to Health: A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague

A chapter in an edited book

Bag S, Ruj S, Roy B (2013) Jamming Resistant Schemes for Wireless Communication: A Combinatorial Approach. In: Bagchi A, Ray I (eds) Information Systems Security: 9th International Conference, ICISS 2013, Kolkata, India, December 16-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–62

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 GeoInformatica.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Renewables Now Produce 22 Percent of the World’s Electricity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/renewables-now-produce-22-percent-worlds-electricity/. 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 (1989) Head Start: Information on Sponsoring Organizations and Center Facilities. 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

Chappel AM (2012) A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students. 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 (2010) Cosby Can Laugh Now, but Football Was Serious Business. New York Times SP5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	GeoInformatica
Abbreviation	Geoinformatica
ISSN (print)	1384-6175
ISSN (online)	1573-7624
Scope	Information Systems Geography, Planning and Development