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

Melino G (2010) Journal club. A cancer biologist weighs up p53, metabolism and cancer. Nature 466:905

A journal article with 2 authors

Folkman J, Kalluri R (2004) Cancer without disease. Nature 427:787

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner WR, Oppenheimer M, Wilcove DS (2009) A force to fight global warming. Nature 462:278–279

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee MG, Villa R, Trojer P, et al (2007) Demethylation of H3K27 regulates polycomb recruitment and H2A ubiquitination. Science 318:447–450

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner DJ (2010) The ETF Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hellmann K, Rhomberg W (2011) Razoxane and Dexrazoxane - Two Multifunctional Agents: Experimental and Clinical Results. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Delorme J (2007) An Automatic Design Flow for Mapping Application onto a 2D Mesh NoC Architecture. In: Azémard N, Svensson L (eds) Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation: 17th International Workshop, PATMOS 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 3-5, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–42

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

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Create Electric Generator Just One Atom Thick. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-create-electric-generator-only-one-atom-thick/. 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 (1991) Transportation: Status of GAO’s Open Recommendations on Transportation Policies and Programs. 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

Newberry GC (2014) Students’ experiences with simulation education. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Koblin J (2017) Patriots’ Super Bowl Victory Features a Big Comeback, Just Not for N.F.L. Ratings. New York Times B3

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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