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

Lammert, E., 2008. Developmental biology. Brain Wnts for blood vessels. Science 322, 1195–1196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, A.M., Jones, R.A., 2000. Anisotropic spinodal dewetting as a route to self-assembly of patterned surfaces. Nature 404, 476–478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver, A.C., Archibald, S., Levin, S.A., 2011. The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 334, 230–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, K., Eres, G., Howe, J., Chuang, Y.-J., Li, X., Gu, Z., Zhang, L., Xie, S., Pan, Z., 2013. Self-assembly of graphene on carbon nanotube surfaces. Sci. Rep. 3, 2353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Helvoort, H., 2005. Next Generation SDH/SONET. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Panda, M., Dehuri, S., Wang, G.-N. (Eds.), 2014. Social Networking: Mining, Visualization, and Security, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanakawa, T., 2015. Clinical Systems Neuroscience, in: Wada, K. (Ed.), Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 89–114.

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. Factory Made Blood Nearing Human Trials [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/factory-made-blood-nearing-human-trials/ (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, 1996. Managed Care Initiatives (No. HEHS-96-153R). 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

Sever, R.S., 2017. A Quantitative Descriptive Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to Investigate and Compare the Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Behavior of Primary Care Prescribers (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lammert, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Higgins and Jones, 2000; Lammert, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Higgins and Jones, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

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