How to format your references using the International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. 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

Shanklin, J. (2010). Reflections on the ozone hole. Nature, 465(7294), 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, Y., & Marsh, J. W. (2001). Selective transcription and modulation of resting T cell activity by preintegrated HIV DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1503–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beaber, J. W., Hochhut, B., & Waldor, M. K. (2004). SOS response promotes horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes. Nature, 427(6969), 72–74.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nábelek, J., Hetényi, G., Vergne, J., Sapkota, S., Kafle, B., Jiang, M., Su, H., Chen, J., Huang, B.-S., & Hi-CLIMB Team. (2009). Underplating in the Himalaya-Tibet collision zone revealed by the Hi-CLIMB experiment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5946), 1371–1374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Del Pico, W. J. (2014). Electrical Estimating Methods. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lall, S. V., Freire, M., Yuen, B., Rajack, R., & Helluin, J.-J. (Eds.). (2009). Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chinesta, F., & Cueto, E. (2014). Parametric Models in Evolving Domains. In E. Cueto (Ed.), PGD-Based Modeling of Materials, Structures and Processes (pp. 91–108). Springer International Publishing.

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 Research in Geographical and Environmental Education.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, March 3). You Are Living Inside A Massive, Musical Instrument – And Here’s What It Sounds Like. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-are-living-inside-a-massive-musical-instrument-and-heres-what-it-sounds-like/

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. (1994). NASA Procurement: Challenges Remain in Implementing Improvement Reforms (NSIAD-94-179). 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

Cannon, M. P. (2013). Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, July 6). In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning. New York Times, C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shanklin, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Shanklin, 2010; Wu & Marsh, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wu & Marsh, 2001)
Three authors: (Beaber et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Nábelek et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Abbreviation	Int. Res. Geogr. Environ. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1038-2046
ISSN (online)	1747-7611
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Education Geography, Planning and Development