How to format your references using the International Journal of Geo-Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Geo-Engineering. 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

Rangel TF (2012) Ecology. Amazonian extinction debts. Science 337:162–163

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn TJ, Briffa KR (2006) The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science 311:841–844

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen A, Wang S, Pacala SW (2012) Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science 336:1639; author reply 1639

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Doss GPC, Rajith B, Chakraborty C, et al (2014) Structural signature of the G719S-T790M double mutation in the EGFR kinase domain and its response to inhibitors. Sci Rep 4:5868

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abd-El-Barr M, El-Rewini H (2004) Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kaukua J, Ekenberg T (2016) Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chiu JL, Bull G, Berry RQ, Kjellstrom WR (2013) Teaching Engineering Design with Digital Fabrication: Imagining, Creating, and Refining Ideas. In: Mouza C, Lavigne N (eds) Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Springer, New York, NY, pp 47–62

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 Geo-Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Smoking Pot Could Make You More Prone To False Memories. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. 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

DeRose CT (2009) Electro-optic polymers: Materials and devices. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Justices Curb States’ Immunity From Suit. New York Times A16

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	International Journal of Geo-Engineering
ISSN (print)	2092-9196
ISSN (online)	2198-2783
Scope