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

Mardis, E. R.: A decade’s perspective on DNA sequencing technology, Nature, 470, 198–203, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hutt, D. and Balch, W. E.: Cell Biology. The proteome in balance, Science, 329, 766–767, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klak, C., Reeves, G., and Hedderson, T.: Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants, Nature, 427, 63–65, 2004.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Fuerst, P. G., Koizumi, A., Masland, R. H., and Burgess, R. W.: Neurite arborization and mosaic spacing in the mouse retina require DSCAM, Nature, 451, 470–474, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, S. and Liu, Y.: Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2011.

An edited book

Lévy, P. P., Grand, B. L., Poulet, F., Soto, M., Darago, L., Toubiana, L., and Vibert, J.-F. (Eds.): Pixelization Paradigm: First Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XV, 288 p pp., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Newhouse, P.: Applied Information Technology, in: Digital Representations of Student Performance for Assessment, edited by: Williams, P. J. and Newhouse, C. P., SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 49–98, 2013.

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

Can Science Finger A Philanderer? Not Like This! https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-science-finger-philanderer-not/, 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: [Better Guidance Would Improve ADP Evaluations in Support of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act of 1982], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marlatt, E. S.: Effects of accelerated instruction on achievement gains of underprepared Catholic high school freshmen, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2013.

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

Vecsey, G.: A Stadium In Queens Is No Walk In the Park, New York Times, 22nd May, B12, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mardis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hutt and Balch, 2010; Mardis, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hutt and Balch, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Fuerst et al., 2008)

About the journal

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