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

Nolet, G.: Geophysics. Slabs do not go gently, Science, 324, 1152–1153, 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn, S. and Lee, S. J.: Nanoparticle role on the repeatability of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites, Sci. Rep., 4, 6624, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelber, A., Balkenius, A., and Warrant, E. J.: Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths, Nature, 419, 922–925, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Lawton, R. O., Nair, U. S., Pielke Sr, R. A., and Welch, R. M.: Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests, Science, 294, 584–587, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, P.: Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Wanninger, A. (Ed.): Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 1: Introduction, Non-Bilateria, Acoelomorpha, Xenoturbellida, Chaetognatha, 1st ed. 2015., Springer, Vienna, VII, 251 p. 133 illus., 112 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Komatineni, S., MacLean, D., and Hashimi, S. Y.: Understanding Content Providers, in: Pro Android 3, edited by: MacLean, D. and Hashimi, S. Y., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 89–123, 2011.

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

Eyes In The sky: Cutting NASA Earth Observations Would Be A Costly Mistake: https://www.iflscience.com/space/eyes-in-the-sky-cutting-nasa-earth-observations-would-be-a-costly-mistake/, 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: Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, C. P.: Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2010.

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

Ortved, J.: Model Makes A Stand With Feminist Art, New York Times, 6th July, D5, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nolet, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ahn and Lee, 2014; Nolet, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ahn and Lee, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lawton et al., 2001)

About the journal

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