How to format your references using the Journal of Geometry and Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geometry and Physics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

M.J. Duncan, Planetary science: Preventing stars from eating their young, Nature 520 (2015) 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.L. Sabatini, K. Svoboda, Analysis of calcium channels in single spines using optical fluctuation analysis, Nature 408 (2000) 589–593.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.W. Schoener, D.A. Spiller, J.B. Losos, Natural restoration of the species-area relation for a lizard after a hurricane, Science 294 (2001) 1525–1528.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Collettini, A. Niemeijer, C. Viti, C. Marone, Fault zone fabric and fault weakness, Nature 462 (2009) 907–910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.H. Schuenemeyer, L.J. Drew, Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J. Zhang, ed., Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Lepperdinger, Ageing of the Stem Cells: The Conjoined Twosome Growing Old: Stem Cell and Its Niche, in: S.I.S. Rattan, L. Hayflick (Eds.), Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 71–83.

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 Geometry and Physics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, A Perfect Match: Two Halves Of Turtle Fossil Discovered 163 Years Apart, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Most Federal Spending Directly Supports Work with Manufacturers, but Distribution Could Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.E. Rivas, Art appreciation program for homeless children: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

[1]

E. St. John Kelly, PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, New York Times (1995) 1315.

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	Journal of Geometry and Physics
Abbreviation	J. Geom. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0393-0440
Scope	Geometry and Topology Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy