How to format your references using the GeoJournal citation style

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

Tully, J. C. (2006). Chemistry. Mode-selective control of surface reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5776), 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helbing, D., & Pournaras, E. (2015). Society: Build digital democracy. Nature, 527(7576), 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boulé, J.-B., Vega, L. R., & Zakian, V. A. (2005). The yeast Pif1p helicase removes telomerase from telomeric DNA. Nature, 438(7064), 57–61.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rands, S. A., Cowlishaw, G., Pettifor, R. A., Rowcliffe, J. M., & Johnstone, R. A. (2003). Spontaneous emergence of leaders and followers in foraging pairs. Nature, 423(6938), 432–434.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini, F., & Leuzzi, G. (2005). Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rana, A. Q. (2013). Neuroradiology in Clinical Practice. (L. A. Zumo & V. Sim, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Veronesi, G. (2015). Thoracic Surgery. In G. Spinoglio (Ed.), Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends (pp. 29–39). Milano: Springer.

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 GeoJournal.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 15). Legal Hunting Of Wolves May Actually Increase Poaching. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/legal-culling-wolves-conservation-may-be-fueling-poaching-instead/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1992). Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts (No. NSIAD-92-201). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nunez, F. V. (2010). A study of the application of the concepts of Karen Horney in leadership development within the National Management Association of the Boeing Company (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Bernstein, N. (2016, October 27). 22 Unclaimed Bodies Endured a Grim Detour Before Burial. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Tully 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Helbing and Pournaras 2015; Tully 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Helbing and Pournaras 2015)
Three or more authors: (Rands et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	GeoJournal
Abbreviation	GeoJournal
ISSN (print)	0343-2521
ISSN (online)	1572-9893
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development