How to format your references using the International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Peng, C., 2011. Focus on quality, not just quantity. Nature 475, 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbaz, D., Cesarsky, C.J., 2003. A fossil record of galaxy encounters. Science 300, 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prasanth, S.G., Prasanth, K.V., Stillman, B., 2002. Orc6 involved in DNA replication, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis. Science 297, 1026–1031.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gillooly, J.F., Brown, J.H., West, G.B., Savage, V.M., Charnov, E.L., 2001. Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate. Science 293, 2248–2251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, F.J., 2009. Institutional Investment Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Greiner, W., 2007. Quantum Chromodynamics, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lodwick, W.A., 2009. The Relationship between Interval, Fuzzy and Possibilistic Optimization, in: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., Inuiguchi, M. (Eds.), Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 6th International Conference, MDAI 2009, Awaji Island, Japan, November 30–December 2, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–59.

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 International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. The Black Death Reshaped the Human Genome [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1977. Alternative to Project Seafarer (No. LCD-77-360). 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

Allen, M.W., 2017. Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam Era (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Bilefsky, D., Castle, S., 2013. Britain Says Equine Drug May Be in Food Chain. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peng, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Elbaz and Cesarsky, 2003; Peng, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Elbaz and Cesarsky, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gillooly et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
ISSN (print)	0303-2434
Scope	Computers in Earth Sciences Earth-Surface Processes Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law