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

Brydson R (2014) Materials analysis: Good vibrations. Nature 514:177–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilder-Smith A, Gubler DJ (2015) PUBLIC HEALTH. Dengue vaccines at a crossroad. Science 350:626–627

A journal article with 3 authors

Langer P, Hogendoorn K, Keller L (2004) Tug-of-war over reproduction in a social bee. Nature 428:844–847

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chan JR, Jolicoeur C, Yamauchi J, et al (2006) The polarity protein Par-3 directly interacts with p75NTR to regulate myelination. Science 314:832–836

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yaacoub EE, Dawy Z (2012) Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Wireless Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Choi T-M, Cheng TCE (2015) Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management: From Sourcing to Retailing. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Shin K, Abraham A, Han SY (2006) Self Organizing Sensor Networks Using Intelligent Clustering. In: Gavrilova ML, Gervasi O, Kumar V, et al (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006: International Conference, Glasgow, UK, May 8-11, 2006, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–49

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

Hale T (2015) Why Do Dogs Tilt Their Heads When We Talk To Them? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-dogs-tilt-their-heads-when-we-talk-them/. 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 (2007) Very Light Jets: Several Factors Could Influence Their Effect on the National Airspace System. 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

Guzman BP (2015) Understanding the factors affecting local emergency service collaboration. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly JF (2016) Give and Take on Handlebars. New York Times A17

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