How to format your references using the Mobilities citation style

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

Serageldin, Ismail. 2002. “The Rice Genome. World Poverty and Hunger--the Challenge for Science.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5565): 54–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, Andrew G., and Philipp W. Messer. 2015. “Evolutionary Genomics. Conundrum of Jumbled Mosquito Genomes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6217): 27–28.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spillane, S. M., T. J. Kippenberg, and K. J. Vahala. 2002. “Ultralow-Threshold Raman Laser Using a Spherical Dielectric Microcavity.” Nature 415 (6872): 621–623.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, Hojun, Virginia Haurigot, Yannick Doyon, Tianjian Li, Sunnie Y. Wong, Anand S. Bhagwat, Nirav Malani, et al. 2011. “In Vivo Genome Editing Restores Haemostasis in a Mouse Model of Haemophilia.” Nature 475 (7355): 217–221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teague, Kevin Anthony, and Nicole Gallicchio. 2017. The Evolution of Meteorology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kassim, Tarek A., ed. 2005. Water Pollution: Environmental Impact Assessment of Recycled Wastes on Surface and Ground Waters; Risk Analysis. Vol. 2. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramakrishnan, Vijay R., Todd T. Kingdom, and Richard R. Orlandi. 2014. “Structural Anomalies of the Nose and Sinuses in Patients with Rhinosinusitis.” In Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Christopher C. Chang, Gary A. Incaudo, and M. Eric Gershwin, 73–86. New York, NY: 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 Mobilities.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “Tree Ring Growth During Solar Storms Can Date Events In the Ancient World.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/tree-ring-growth-during-solar-storms-can-date-events-in-the-ancient-world/.

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. 1972. Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971. B-114868. Washington, DC: 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

Eggers, Monica von. 2017. “Searching for a Post-Jungian Psychophysical Reality in Recovery from Addiction.” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Williams, John. 2017. “TV, Pre-Golden Age.” New York Times, September 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Serageldin 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Serageldin 2002; Clark and Messer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Clark and Messer 2015)
Three authors: (Spillane, Kippenberg, and Vahala 2002)
4 or more authors: (Li et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mobilities
Abbreviation	Mobilities
ISSN (print)	1745-0101
ISSN (online)	1745-011X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science Demography