How to format your references using the Journal of Historical Geography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Historical Geography. 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. Tegmark, Many lives in many worlds, Nature 448 (2007) 23–24.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Gottifredi, C. Prives, Molecular biology. Getting p53 out of the nucleus, Science 292 (2001) 1851–1852.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Chen, D. Parker, D.J. Singh, Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Lee, J.-W. Lee, D.Y. Kim, J. Park, Y.-T. Seo, H. Zeng, I.L. Moudrakovski, C.I. Ratcliffe, J.A. Ripmeester, Tuning clathrate hydrates for hydrogen storage, Nature 434 (2005) 743–746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG, MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A.L.S. Chang, ed., Advances in Geriatric Dermatology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. de Lemos Almada, Genetic Algorithms Based on the Principles of Grundgestalt and Developing Variation, in: T. Collins, D. Meredith, A. Volk (Eds.), Mathematics and Computation in Music: 5th International Conference, MCM 2015, London, UK, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 42–51.

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 Historical Geography.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Caffeine May Protect Older Women From Dementia, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/caffeine-may-protect-older-women-from-dementia/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Drug Education: Rural Programs Have Many Components and Most Rely Heavily on Federal Funds, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.L. Little, The effects of a financial literacy intervention on teachers’ financial literacy, awareness, and advocacy, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

T. Kepner, Cubs Seize Control as Bloop Cancels Out Blunder, New York Times (2017) B12.

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 Historical Geography
ISSN (print)	0305-7488
Scope