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

Theobald DL (2010) A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry. Nature 465:219–222

A journal article with 2 authors

Kamiyama D, Chiba A (2009) Endogenous activation patterns of Cdc42 GTPase within Drosophila embryos. Science 324:1338–1340

A journal article with 3 authors

Binshtok AM, Bean BP, Woolf CJ (2007) Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers. Nature 449:607–610

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lei D, Ma J, Du X, et al (2014) Microstructural abnormalities in the combined and inattentive subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Sci Rep 4:6875

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor FJ (2011) Digital Filters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pâques LE (2013) Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ohno K (2008) Vegetation-geographic evaluation of the syntaxonomic system of valley-bottom forests occurring in the cooltemperate zone of the Japanese Archipelago. In: Sakio H, Tamura T (eds) Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan: Disturbance, Life History, and Regeneration. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 49–72

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

Andrews R (2016) Justin Trudeau Says Canada Will Implement Carbon Tax To Help Meet Climate Change Targets. 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 (1977) Proposed Facility Requirements for the National Center for Toxicological Research and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 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

Mukherjee N (2003) Development of High Sensitivity Bending Mode Polymer Piezoelectric Devices for Inner Ear Implantation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Saslow L (2008) Bond Issue Is Approved for Sachem Schools. New York Times LI2

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