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

Catling, D.C., 2006. Comment on “A hydrogen-rich early Earth atmosphere.” Science 311, 38; author reply 38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, X., Xu, J., 2014. Dietary and circulating lycopene and stroke risk: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. Sci. Rep. 4, 5031.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taniguchi, H., Lu, J., Huang, Z.J., 2013. The spatial and temporal origin of chandelier cells in mouse neocortex. Science 339, 70–74.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Karpova, N.N., Pickenhagen, A., Lindholm, J., Tiraboschi, E., Kulesskaya, N., Agústsdóttir, A., Antila, H., Popova, D., Akamine, Y., Bahi, A., Sullivan, R., Hen, R., Drew, L.J., Castrén, E., 2011. Fear erasure in mice requires synergy between antidepressant drugs and extinction training. Science 334, 1731–1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, W., 2017. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bhowmick, S.S., Küng, J., Wagner, R. (Eds.), 2009. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 20th International Conference, DEXA 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 – September 4, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fierens, D., Ramon, J., Bruynooghe, M., Blockeel, H., 2008. Learning Directed Probabilistic Logical Models Using Ordering-Search, in: Blockeel, H., Ramon, J., Shavlik, J., Tadepalli, P. (Eds.), Inductive Logic Programming: 17th International Conference, ILP 2007, Corvallis, OR, USA, June 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–24.

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

Andrews, R., 2015. What The Heck Is This Huge Lump On The Moon? [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, 1979. A Single Federal Authority Is Needed for Establishing or Constructing Rehabilitation Facilities (No. HRD-79-84). 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

Sidwell, M.D., 2017. Indirect measures as predictors of social skills observed through means of direct observation (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Lee, L., 2013. Looking for Love and Lobster Salad. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Catling, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Catling, 2006; Li and Xu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Xu, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Karpova et al., 2011)

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