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

Diamond, J.: Anthropology. The astonishing micropygmies, Science, 306, 2047–2048, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonn, D. and Denn, M. M.: Materials science. Yield stress fluids slowly yield to analysis, Science, 324, 1401–1402, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lederer, W. J., Hagen, B. M., and Zhao, G.: Cell biology. Superresolution subspace signaling, Science, 336, 546–547, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Corma, A., Díaz-Cabañas, M. J., Jordá, J. L., Martínez, C., and Moliner, M.: High-throughput synthesis and catalytic properties of a molecular sieve with 18- and 10-member rings, Nature, 443, 842–845, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth, M.: Pharmazeutische Mikrobiologie, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

Martinez, J. E. (Ed.): A Performatory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, XI, 118p pp., 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ehrenschwender, M. and Wajant, H.: The Role of FasL and Fas in Health and Disease, in: Therapeutic Targets of the TNF Superfamily, edited by: Grewal, I. S., Springer, New York, NY, 64–93, 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

SeaWorld Have Announced That They Are Ending Live Orca Shows:

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: Efforts To Stop Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Coming From and Through Mexico and Central America, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitman, S.: Operational risk and financial institution leaders’ decision making: A quantitative descriptive correlation study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2012.

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

Schmidt, M. S. and Apuzzo, M.: Mueller’s Moves Point to Inquiry Aimed at Trump, New York Times, 15th June, A1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bonn and Denn, 2009; Diamond, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bonn and Denn, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Corma et al., 2006)

About the journal

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