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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Hernando, E., 2008. Cancer. Aneuploidy advantages? Science 322, 692–693.
A journal article with 2 authors
Koechlin, E., Hyafil, A., 2007. Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making. Science 318, 594–598.
A journal article with 3 authors
Prytkova, T.R., Kurnikov, I.V., Beratan, D.N., 2007. Coupling coherence distinguishes structure sensitivity in protein electron transfer. Science 315, 622–625.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Baimuratov, A.S., Rukhlenko, I.D., Turkov, V.K., Ponomareva, I.O., Leonov, M.Y., Perova, T.S., Berwick, K., Baranov, A.V., Fedorov, A.V., 2014. Level anticrossing of impurity states in semiconductor nanocrystals. Sci. Rep. 4, 6917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Scheringer, M., 2002. Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.
An edited book
Aßmann, U., Bartho, A., Wende, C. (Eds.), 2010. Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Software Engineering: 6th International Summer School 2010, Dresden, Germany, August 30 - September 3, 2010. Tutorial Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Massone, C., Nunzi, E., 2012. Pathogenesis, in: Nunzi, E., Massone, C. (Eds.), Leprosy: A Practical Guide. Springer, Milano, pp. 39–42.

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
Andrew, D., 2016. Testing Life-Hacks With ‘Citizen Science’: Does Stainless Steel Really Get Rid Of Garlic Smells? [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, 1990. Continuing Professional Education: Federal GS-510 Accountants’ Report (No. 143680). 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
Buquiran, E.S., 2014. Factors affecting members’ retention in Toastmasters International (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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
Gordon, M.R., 2017. On the Mosul Front, a Block-by-Block Fight Against ISIS and Time. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hernando, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hernando, 2008; Koechlin and Hyafil, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Koechlin and Hyafil, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Baimuratov et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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