How to format your references using the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (IJSDIR). 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

Randall, L. (2002). Extra dimensions and warped geometries, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572): 1422–1427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ketov, S.V. and D.V. Louzguine-Luzgin (2013). Localized shear deformation and softening of bulk metallic glass: stress or temperature driven?, Scientific reports, 3: 2798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, W., S. Zhang and X. Long (2013). Polarisation control through an optical feedback technique and its application in precise measurements, Scientific reports, 3: 1992.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, W., A.P. Scott, M.J. Siefkes, H. Yan, Q. Liu, S.-S. Yun and D.A. Gage (2002). Bile Acid secreted by male sea lamprey that acts as a sex pheromone, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565): 138–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger, R.M. (2015). Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

(2011). Computational Science and High Performance Computing IV: The 4th Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Freiburg, Germany, October 12 to 16, 2009, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Holovaty, A. and J. Kaplan-Moss (2008). "The Django Template System", in Kaplan-Moss, J. (Ed.). The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 31–58.

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 Spatial Data Infrastructures Research.

Blog post

Fang, Janet (2015). Two Supermassive Black Holes Set To Collide, at https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-hole-merger-unleashes-energy-100-million-supernovae/, [accessed 30 October 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 (1975). Project Head Start: Achievements and Problems, MWD-75-51, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Brightbill, R.G. (2012). Bradenton, FL: A Patchwork City, Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Pilon, M. (2013). Differing Views on Value of High School Tests.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Randall, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Randall, 2002; Ketov and Louzguine-Luzgin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ketov and Louzguine-Luzgin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
ISSN (print)	1725-0463
Scope