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

Bennett JW (2015) The fungi that ate my house. Science 349:1018

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz M, Fütterer J (2002) Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 416:600–1; discussion 600, 602

A journal article with 3 authors

Drinnenberg IA, Fink GR, Bartel DP (2011) Compatibility with killer explains the rise of RNAi-deficient fungi. Science 333:1592

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shimizu K, Kimura T, Furomoto S, et al (2001) Superconductivity in the non-magnetic state of iron under pressure. Nature 412:316–318

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith P (2016) Structural Design of Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kapoor D (2011) Critical Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Chen X (2016) Breaking Out of the “Main Melody”: Meng Bing and His “Monumental Theatre.” In: Ruru L (ed) Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 79–96

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

Davis J (2015) Japan Accused Of Falsifying Historical Whaling Data. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/japan-accused-falsifying-whaling-data/. 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 (1998) Financial Management: Federal Aviation Administration Lacked Accountability for Major Assets. 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

Norton JC (2013) Elementary ESL and General Education Co-Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Co-Teaching Roles: A Mixed Methods Study. 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

Hollander S (2002) Adaptive Sports Stoke the Competitive Spirit. New York Times D8

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