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

Cramer, K. (2000). Disextinction, Inc, Nature, 405(6783): 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto, K. and K. Tanaka (2004). Neuroscience. Conflict and cognitive control, Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5660): 969–970.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jong, T. de, M.C. Linn and Z.C. Zacharia (2013). Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education, Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6130): 305–308.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lo, U., V. Selvaraj, J.M. Plane, O.V. Chechneva, K. Otsu and W. Deng (2014). p38α (MAPK14) critically regulates the immunological response and the production of specific cytokines and chemokines in astrocytes, Scientific reports, 4: 7405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iacus, S.M. (2011). Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Combi, C. (2010). Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Latorre, J.M., S. Cerisola, A. Ramos, R. Bellido and A. Perea (2007). "Creation of Hydroelectric System Scheduling by Simulation", in Qudrat-Ullah, H., J. M. Spector, and P. I. Davidsen (Eds.). Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 83–96.

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). Marmoset Babies Learn to Wait for Their Turn to Talk, at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/marmoset-babies-learn-wait-their-turn-talk/, [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 (1989). Air Fares and Service at Concentrated Airports, T-RCED-89-37, 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

Marcus, J. (2012). Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt, Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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. (2014). Baton in This Race Is the Conductor’s.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cramer, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cramer, 2000; Matsumoto and Tanaka, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Matsumoto and Tanaka, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lo et al., 2014)

About the journal

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