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

Triendl, R. (2002). Slim pickings for silicon specialists. Nature, 416(6877), 6–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marsan, D., & Lengliné, O. (2008). Extending earthquakes’ reach through cascading. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1076–1079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Redford, K. H., Jensen, D. B., & Breheny, J. J. (2012). Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6111), 1157–1158.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Stefer, S., Reitz, S., Wang, F., Wild, K., Pang, Y.-Y., Schwarz, D., Bomke, J., Hein, C., Löhr, F., Bernhard, F., Denic, V., Dötsch, V., & Sinning, I. (2011). Structural basis for tail-anchored membrane protein biogenesis by the Get3-receptor complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 758–762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beckers, B., & Beckers, P. (2014). Reconciliation of Geometry and Perception in Radiation Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Adorni, G., Cagnoni, S., Gori, M., & Maratea, M. (Eds.). (2016). AI*IA 2016 Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XVth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Genova, Italy, November 29 – December 1, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 10037). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Marks, N. J., & Maule, A. G. (2010). Neuropeptides in Helminths: Occurrence and Distribution. In T. G. Geary & A. G. Maule (Eds.), Neuropeptide Systems as Targets for Parasite and Pest Control (pp. 49–77). Springer US.

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, D. (2015, July 16). Dolphins Spotted Riding Whales Off The Coast Of Hawaii. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dolphins-having-whale-time-coast-hawaii/

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. (1983). NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California (AFMD-83-40). 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

Perfitt, T. (2009). Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging [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

Wilson, M. (2017, August 4). Diary Hints at Slaves’ Remains on a Lot in Brooklyn. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Marsan & Lengliné, 2008; Triendl, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Marsan & Lengliné, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Stefer et al., 2011)

About the journal

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