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

Staley K (2004) Neuroscience. Epileptic neurons go wireless. Science 305:482–483

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane MA, Evans M (2000) CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule? Science 290:1107–1108

A journal article with 3 authors

Traag VA, Krings G, Van Dooren P (2013) Significant scales in community structure. Sci Rep 3:2930

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blanke O, Ortigue S, Landis T, Seeck M (2002) Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions. Nature 419:269–270

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta J (2016) Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Heck A (2005) The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Seidengart J (2016) The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno. In: Vermeir K, Regier J (eds) Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 107–124

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 (2015) Are Infectious Diseases Spreading Through Bat Caves And Bat Meat In West Africa? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/are-infectious-diseases-spreading-through-bat-caves-and-bat-meat-west-africa/. 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 (1983) U.S. Preparations for the 1983 Regional Administrative Radio Conference. 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

Hall KN (2010) Facilitating physically active identity development in older women. 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

Kelly D (2000) Girl Scout. New York Times 711

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

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