How to format your references using the Social Geography Discussions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Geography Discussions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Veis, A.: Materials science. A window on biomineralization, Science, 307, 1419–1420, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarewitz, D. and Nelson, R.: Three rules for technological fixes, Nature, 456, 871–872, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silk, J. B., Alberts, S. C., and Altmann, J.: Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival, Science, 302, 1231–1234, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Mundy, N. I., Badcock, N. S., Hart, T., Scribner, K., Janssen, K., and Nadeau, N. J.: Conserved genetic basis of a quantitative plumage trait involved in mate choice, Science, 303, 1870–1873, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop, A.: Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

Turenne, S. (Ed.): Fair Reflection of Society in Judicial Systems - A Comparative Study, Springer International Publishing, Cham, IX, 236 p. 2 illus pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Patrick, S. and McDowell, A.: Propionibacterium acnes: An Emerging Pathogen in Biomaterial-Associated Infection, in: Biomaterials Associated Infection: Immunological Aspects and Antimicrobial Strategies, edited by: Moriarty, T. F., Zaat, S. A. J., and Busscher, H. J., Springer, New York, NY, 87–105, 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 Discussions.

Blog post

LHC Finds Particles That Defy The Standard Model Of Physics:

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: Federal Motor Vehicles: Private and State Practices Can Improve Fleet Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lopez, C.: A community-based outreach program for Latinos in Los Angeles County supporting mental health awareness and treatment: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Paulson, M.: Soho Rep to Return, New York Times, 25th April, C3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veis, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sarewitz and Nelson, 2008; Veis, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sarewitz and Nelson, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Mundy et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Geography Discussions
ISSN (online)	1816-1502
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