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

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

Guan, J.-L. (2004). Cell biology. Integrins, rafts, Rac, and Rho. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 773–774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller, B., & Sheen, J. (2008). Cytokinin and auxin interaction in root stem-cell specification during early embryogenesis. Nature, 453(7198), 1094–1097.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gleiche, M., Chi, L. F., & Fuchs, H. (2000). Nanoscopic channel lattices with controlled anisotropic wetting. Nature, 403(6766), 173–175.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kapitein, L. C., Peterman, E. J. G., Kwok, B. H., Kim, J. H., Kapoor, T. M., & Schmidt, C. F. (2005). The bipolar mitotic kinesin Eg5 moves on both microtubules that it crosslinks. Nature, 435(7038), 114–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, R. (2011). A History of American Literature. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sako, H., Franke, K. Y., & Saitoh, S. (Eds.). (2011). Computational Forensics: 4th International Workshop, IWCF 2010, Tokyo, Japan, November 11-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 6540). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borcard, D., Gillet, F., & Legendre, P. (2011). Unconstrained Ordination. In F. Gillet & P. Legendre (Eds.), Numerical Ecology with R (pp. 115–151). 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 Maps.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, October 8). Pigeons Wearing Eye Patches Must Learn New Routes Home. 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. (2003). Freight Transportation: Strategies Needed to Address Planning and Financing Limitations (GAO-04-165). 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

Panteleyeva, N. B. (2010). Statistical methods of latent structure discovery in child-directed speech [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

Greenhouse, L. (2014, January 6). Crack Cocaine Limbo. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guan, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Guan, 2004; Müller & Sheen, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Müller & Sheen, 2008)
Three authors: (Gleiche et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Kapitein et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Maps
Abbreviation	J. Maps
ISSN (online)	1744-5647
Scope