How to format your references using the Social Geography citation style

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

Price, S. L.: Chemistry. Lattice energy, nailed?, Science, 345, 619–620, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temeles, E. J. and Kress, W. J.: Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association, Science, 300, 630–633, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arp, G., Reimer, A., and Reitner, J.: Photosynthesis-induced biofilm calcification and calcium concentrations in Phanerozoic oceans, Science, 292, 1701–1704, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Matsubayashi, Y., Ogawa, M., Morita, A., and Sakagami, Y.: An LRR receptor kinase involved in perception of a peptide plant hormone, phytosulfokine, Science, 296, 1470–1472, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis, H. and Lawson, A.: Anatomy for Anaesthetists, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Henderson-Sellers, B.: Situational Method Engineering, edited by: Ralyté, J., Ågerfalk, P. J., and Rossi, M., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XX, 310 p. 167 illus., 58 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Brinckman, M.: Temporary Embolic Agents, in: Transcatheter Embolization and Therapy, edited by: Kessel, D. and Ray, C., Springer, London, 41–50, 2009.

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 Social Geography.

Blog post

These Gorgeous “Planet Earth II” Videos Are The Best Cure For Election Anxiety: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-gorgeous-planet-earth-2-videos-are-the-best-cure-for-election-anxiety/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: Operations of and Outlook for the Transportation Trust Funds, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lowe, C.: A correlational study of the relationship between Learner Autonomy and academic performance, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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

Rashbaum, W. K. and Mueller, B.: Escaped Killer Is Fatally Shot in New York, New York Times, 27th June, A1, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Price, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Price, 2014; Temeles and Kress, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Temeles and Kress, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Matsubayashi et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Geography
ISSN (print)	1729-4274
ISSN (online)	1729-4312
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