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

Fairchild, A. L.: Public health. Diabetes and disease surveillance, Science, 313, 175–176, 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehning, D. and Snyder, S. H.: Circadian rhythms. Carbon monoxide and clocks, Science, 298, 2339–2340, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schnupp, J. W., Mrsic-Flogel, T. D., and King, A. J.: Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex, Nature, 414, 200–204, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Cavalleri, A., Wall, S., Simpson, C., Statz, E., Ward, D. W., Nelson, K. A., Rini, M., and Schoenlein, R. W.: Tracking the motion of charges in a terahertz light field by femtosecond X-ray diffraction, Nature, 442, 664–666, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, C.: Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Matsuoka, Y. and Yoshida, M. (Eds.): Challenges for Human Security Engineering, Springer Japan, Tokyo, IX, 219 p. 61 illus pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Missbach, M., Stelzel, J., Gardiner, C., Anderson, G., and Tempes, M.: Security Aspects for SAP on Cloud, in: SAP on the Cloud, edited by: Stelzel, J., Gardiner, C., Anderson, G., and Tempes, M., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 65–82, 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

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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 Research: Interim Report on the Pilot Technology Access Program, 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

Robertson, M.: Respite efficacy for parents of adults with intellectual disabilities: An ethnographic perspective, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Kolomatsky, M.: Does a Building’s Age Affect the Rent?, New York Times, 18th August, RE2, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fairchild, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Boehning and Snyder, 2002; Fairchild, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Boehning and Snyder, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cavalleri et al., 2006)

About the journal

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