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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geometry. 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

Kuypers, M.M.M.: Microbiology: A division of labour combined. Nature. 528, 487–488 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishiizumi, K., Caffee, M.W.: Beryllium-10 from the Sun. Science. 294, 352–354 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Jop, P., Forterre, Y., Pouliquen, O.: A constitutive law for dense granular flows. Nature. 441, 727–730 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Szenker-Ravi, E., Altunoglu, U., Leushacke, M., Bosso-Lefèvre, C., Khatoo, M., Thi Tran, H., Naert, T., Noelanders, R., Hajamohideen, A., Beneteau, C., de Sousa, S.B., Karaman, B., Latypova, X., Başaran, S., Yücel, E.B., Tan, T.T., Vlaminck, L., Nayak, S.S., Shukla, A., Girisha, K.M., Le Caignec, C., Soshnikova, N., Uyguner, Z.O., Vleminckx, K., Barker, N., Kayserili, H., Reversade, B.: Author Correction: RSPO2 inhibition of RNF43 and ZNRF3 governs limb development independently of LGR4/5/6. Nature. 561, E7 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigg, N.S.: Infrastructure Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Ghafar-Zadeh, E.: CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Lab-on-Chip Applications: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Cortese, P.F., Di Battista, G., Patrignani, M., Pizzonia, M.: On Embedding a Cycle in a Plane Graph. In: Healy, P. and Nikolov, N.S. (eds.) Graph Drawing: 13th International Symposium, GD 2005, Limerick, Ireland, September 12-14, 2005. Revised Papers. pp. 49–60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Extremely Rare Sumatran Rhino Gives Birth At Indonesian Sanctuary, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extremely-rare-sumatran-rhino-gives-birth-indonesian-sanctuary/

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: Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greene, B.: Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga, (2017)

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

Saslow, L.: The Week; LIPA Ponders Fate of Wind Farm as Costs Rise, (2007)

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
Abbreviation	J. Geom.
ISSN (print)	0047-2468
ISSN (online)	1420-8997
Scope	Geometry and Topology