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]

J. Wright, Epigenetics: reversible tags, Nature 498 (2013) S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Khosla, Y. Tang, Chemistry. A new route to designer antibiotics, Science 308 (2005) 367–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.N. Raymond, A.M. Mandell, S. Sigurdsson, Exotic Earths: forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration, Science 313 (2006) 1413–1416.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Jakobsen, H.F. Poulsen, U. Lienert, J. Almer, S.D. Shastri, H.O. Sørensen, C. Gundlach, W. Pantleon, Formation and subdivision of deformation structures during plastic deformation, Science 312 (2006) 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.E. Silvia, Dynamic Economic Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

I. Cervesato, ed., Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2007. Computer and Network Security: 12th Asian Computing Science Conference, Doha, Qatar, December 9-11, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.R. Cho, J. Park, Y. Sano, Edge-disjoint Decompositions of Complete Multipartite Graphs into Gregarious Long Cycles, in: J. Akiyama, M. Kano, T. Sakai (Eds.), Computational Geometry and Graphs: Thailand-Japan Joint Conference, TJJCCGG 2012, Bangkok, Thailand, December 6-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 57–63.

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]

E. Andrew, Disease Evolution: How New Illnesses Emerge When We Change How We Live, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disease-evolution-how-new-illnesses-emerge-when-we-change-how-we-live/ (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, Need To Revise Office of Saline Water’s Restrictive Patent Policy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.M. Roberts, Whose Books Get Published?: Individual Agency and the Business of Children’s Publishing, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006.

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]

J.A. Meyer, L.R. Meyer, All Prosecution Is Local, New York Times (2007) CT15.

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