How to format your references using the Journal of Geography in Higher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geography in Higher 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:

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
Brower, V. (2011). Biomarkers: Portents of malignancy. Nature, 471(7339), S19-21.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kelley, K. A., & Cottrell, E. (2009). Water and the oxidation state of subduction zone magmas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5940), 605–607.
A journal article with 3 authors
Zimov, S. A., Schuur, E. A. G., & Chapin, F. S., 3rd. (2006). Climate change. Permafrost and the global carbon budget. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1612–1613.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Alavi, A., Hood, J. D., Frausto, R., Stupack, D. G., & Cheresh, D. A. (2003). Role of Raf in vascular protection from distinct apoptotic stimuli. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5629), 94–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Yamarone, R. (2012). The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Levitin, G. (Ed.). (2007). Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: New Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability (Vol. 40). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Benesty, J., Chen, J., & Habets, E. A. P. (2012). Multichannel Speech Enhancement with Gains. In J. Chen & E. A. P. Habets (Eds.), Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain (pp. 51–75). Springer.

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 Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Blog post
Andrews, R. (2016, October 10). NASA Is Using “Martian Gardens” To Learn How To Farm On The Red Planet. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1991). Food Assistance: Processing of USDA Commodities Donated to the National School Lunch Program (RCED-92-67). 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
Janowiecki, S. (2015). The evolutionary status of high and extremely low surface brightness dwarf galaxies [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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
(nyt), S. K. (2004, May 19). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brower, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brower, 2011; Kelley & Cottrell, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Kelley & Cottrell, 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Alavi et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Geography in Higher Education
AbbreviationJ. Geogr. High. Educ.
ISSN (print)0309-8265
ISSN (online)1466-1845
ScopeEducation
Geography, Planning and Development

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