How to format your references using the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 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

Keeling, R.F., 2008. Atmospheric science. Recording Earth’s vital signs. Science 319, 1771–1772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malin, M.C., Edgett, K.S., 2003. Evidence for persistent flow and aqueous sedimentation on early Mars. Science 302, 1931–1934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phelps, J., Webb, E.L., Agrawal, A., 2010. Land use. Does REDD+ threaten to recentralize forest governance? Science 328, 312–313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, B., Matsuoka, S., Ballif, B.A., Zhang, D., Smogorzewska, A., Gygi, S.P., Elledge, S.J., 2007. Abraxas and RAP80 form a BRCA1 protein complex required for the DNA damage response. Science 316, 1194–1198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perl, J., DeMark, T.R., 2010. DeMark Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sekkat, K. (Ed.), 2010. Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries: Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Quentel-Touche, C., 2011. Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues, in: Green, K., Mews, C. (Eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 53–80.

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 Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Misshaped Fossil Plankton Signal Mass Extinctions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. SBA Loan Monitoring System: Substantial Progress Yet Key Risks and Challenges Remain (No. AIMD-00-124). 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

Lackey, G.M., 2015. The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Crow, K., 2002. Mott Street as a Path to Revolution For the Father of Modern China. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keeling, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Keeling, 2008; Malin and Edgett, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Malin and Edgett, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0924-2716
Scope	Computer Science Applications Computers in Earth Sciences Engineering (miscellaneous) Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics