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

Reichhardt, Tony. 2005. “Pumping up the Volume.” Nature 436 (7049): 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wohlers, Anke, and Bernard J. Wood. 2015. “A Mercury-like Component of Early Earth Yields Uranium in the Core and High Mantle (142)Nd.” Nature 520 (7547): 337–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Nions, Keith, Robin Pitman, and Clive Marsh. 2002. “Science of Nuclear Warheads.” Nature 415 (6874): 853–857.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Savile, Christopher K., Jacob M. Janey, Emily C. Mundorff, Jeffrey C. Moore, Sarena Tam, William R. Jarvis, Jeffrey C. Colbeck, et al. 2010. “Biocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Amines from Ketones Applied to Sitagliptin Manufacture.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5989): 305–309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, Abdelkrim. 2015. Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Resch, Michael, Thomas Bönisch, Katharina Benkert, Wolfgang Bez, Toshiyuki Furui, and Yoshiki Seo, eds. 2006. High Performance Computing on Vector Systems: Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, March 2005. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanzana, Héctor Caripan, Alfredo Almonacid, and Edgardo Oyarzun Mendez. 2015. “Good Practices in Private Parks. Valdivian Coastal Reservation.” In Tourism in Latin America: Cases of Success, edited by Alexandre Panosso Netto and Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo, 85–103. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “NASA Wants To Establish A Floating Cloud City To Study Venus.” 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. 1977. Examination of Possible “Buy-In” by Garrett AiResearch. PSAD-77-73. 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

Tucker, Christine Michelle. 2010. “End-Stage Renal Disease Patients and Dialysis: Can Consistent Transportation Influence Quality of Life and Treatment Compliance? A Grant Writing Project.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Justices, Already Split, Commence Work on a Polarizing New Docket.” New York Times, October 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt 2005; Wohlers and Wood 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wohlers and Wood 2015)
Three authors: (O’Nions, Pitman, and Marsh 2002)
4 or more authors: (Savile et al. 2010)

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