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

Macilwain, C. 2000. “Green Bank Dish May Be Last of the Giants.” Nature 406 (6798): 816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saye, Robert I., and James A. Sethian. 2013. “Multiscale Modeling of Membrane Rearrangement, Drainage, and Rupture in Evolving Foams.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6133): 720–724.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martill, David M., Helmut Tischlinger, and Nicholas R. Longrich. 2015. “EVOLUTION. A Four-Legged Snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6246): 416–419.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Garand, Etienne, Jia Zhou, David E. Manolopoulos, Millard H. Alexander, and Daniel M. Neumark. 2008. “Nonadiabatic Interactions in the Cl + H2 Reaction Probed by ClH2- and ClD2- Photoelectron Imaging.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5859): 72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle, Jay R. 2013. Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tazreiter, Claudia. 2016. Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific: Transnational Lives, Human Rights and State Control. Edited by Leanne Weber, Sharon Pickering, Marie Segrave, and Helen McKernan. 1st ed. 2016. Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Cotter, Valerie T., and Julie Teixeira. 2016. “Early Stage Dementia: Maximizing Self-Direction and Health.” In Dementia Care: An Evidence-Based Approach, edited by Marie Boltz and James E. Galvin, 61–70. 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. 2015. “How To Light A Candle With Smoke.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/relight-candle-its-smoke-trail/.

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. 1989. Aircraft Noise: Status and Management of FAA’s West Coast Plan. RCED-89-84. 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

McIlwain, Carol J. 2017. “Defense Institutional Building - Integrating the Work.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kelly, Raymond W. 2007. “Washington’s Secret Gun Files.” New York Times, June 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Saye and Sethian 2013).

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

Two authors: (Saye and Sethian 2013)
Three authors: (Martill, Tischlinger, and Longrich 2015)
4 or more authors: (Garand et al. 2008)

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