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

Stock, J. M. (2006). Geochemistry. The Hawaiian-Emperor bend: older than expected. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5791), 1250–1251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emerson, B. C., & Kolm, N. (2005). Species diversity can drive speciation. Nature, 434(7036), 1015–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sha, W. E. I., Li, X., & Choy, W. C. H. (2014). Breaking the space charge limit in organic solar cells by a novel plasmonic-electrical concept. Scientific Reports, 4, 6236.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ives, A. R., Einarsson, A., Jansen, V. A. A., & Gardarsson, A. (2008). High-amplitude fluctuations and alternative dynamical states of midges in Lake Myvatn. Nature, 452(7183), 84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voigtman, E. (2017). Limits of Detection in Chemical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zarate, C. A., & Manji, H. K. (Eds.). (2009). Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis and Pharmacotherapy. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Hart, E., & Davoudani, D. (2009). Dendritic Cell Trafficking: From Immunology to Engineering. In P. S. Andrews, J. Timmis, N. D. L. Owens, U. Aickelin, E. Hart, A. Hone, & A. M. Tyrrell (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 11–13). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, April 28). How We Identified Weird And Wonderful ‘Jurassic Platypus’ Dinosaur. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-we-identified-weird-and-wonderful-jurassic-platypus-dinosaur/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Testing Guide (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.21) (AIMD-10.1.21). 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

Chan, B. K. (2017). Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Goldsmith, J. (2017, March 15). Yes, We Are Holding Trump Accountable. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stock, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Emerson & Kolm, 2005; Stock, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Emerson & Kolm, 2005)
Three authors: (Sha et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Ives et al., 2008)

About the journal

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