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

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

Marx, V. Neurobiology: Brain Mapping in High Resolution. Nature 2013, 503, 147–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Day, M.; Morris, R.G. Memory Consolidation and NMDA Receptors: Discrepancy between Genetic and Pharmacological Approaches. Science 2001, 293, 755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madhu, R.; Veeramani, V.; Chen, S.-M. Heteroatom-Enriched and Renewable Banana-Stem-Derived Porous Carbon for the Electrochemical Determination of Nitrite in Various Water Samples. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4679.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sheng, C.-X.; Singh, S.; Gambetta, A.; Drori, T.; Tong, M.; Tretiak, S.; Vardeny, Z.V. Ultrafast Intersystem-Crossing in Platinum Containing π-Conjugated Polymers with Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigorenko, Y.N.; Chilingar, G.V.; Sobolev, V.S.; Andiyeva, T.A.; Zhukova, L.I. Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118533604.

An edited book

Mathematics of Surfaces XIII: 13th IMA International Conference York, UK, September 7-9, 2009 Proceedings; Hancock, E.R., Martin, R.R., Sabin, M.A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5654; ISBN 9783642035951.

A chapter in an edited book

Howard, B.; Yang, T. The Main Results. In Intersections of Hirzebruch–Zagier Divisors and CM Cycles; Yang, T., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 65–84 ISBN 9783642239786.

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 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Blog post

Hale, T. Egyptian Mummy Thought To Be A Bird Turns Out To Be Human Fetus (accessed on 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 Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Theis, J.Y. Accessing Mental Health Services among Asian American Adults: Evidence from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Feeney, K. Endless Options in a Wrap. New York Times 2006, NJ6.

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	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Abbreviation	ISPRS Int. J. Geoinf.
ISSN (online)	2220-9964
Scope