How to format your references using the Geometriae Dedicata citation style

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

Ball, P.: Crisis response: The new history. Nature. 480, 447–448 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Keusch, G.T., Medlin, C.A.: Tapping the power of small institutions. Nature. 422, 561–562 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Maduwage, K., O’Leary, M.A., Isbister, G.K.: Diagnosis of snake envenomation using a simple phospholipase A2 assay. Sci. Rep. 4, 4827 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Benassi, A., Marioni, M.A., Passerone, D., Hug, H.J.: Role of interface coupling inhomogeneity in domain evolution in exchange bias. Sci. Rep. 4, 4508 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orchin, M., Macomber, R.S., Pinhas, A.R., Wilson, R.M.: The Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Novitzky, D., Cooper, D.K.C. eds: The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Murshed, S.M.: Globalisation, Marginalisation and Conflict. In: Spoor, M. (ed.) Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical “Development” Reader. pp. 67–80. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Geometriae Dedicata.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: A Massive Impact Crater May Be Hiding Near The Falklands, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/a-massive-impact-crater-may-be-hiding-near-the-falklands/

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: Earth Resources Information Satellite System Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liu, H.: Three Papers on the Sociology of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), (2017)

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

Hubbard, G.: Obama’s Bad Economic Ideas, (2015)

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	Geometriae Dedicata
Abbreviation	Geom. Dedicata
ISSN (print)	0046-5755
ISSN (online)	1572-9168
Scope	Geometry and Topology