How to format your references using the Southeastern Geographer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Southeastern Geographer. 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

Hill, F. 2007. ASTRONOMY. Waves in the Sun’s core. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5831): 1573–1574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenwood, B., and Owusu-Agyei, S. 2012. Epidemiology. Malaria in the post-genome era. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6103): 49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schubert, G., Russell, C.T., and Moore, W.B. 2000. Timing of the Martian dynamo. Nature 408 (6813): 666–667.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Baptiste, K.E. et al. 2000. A function for guttural pouches in the horse. Nature 403 (6768): 382–383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. 2013. Extractive Metallurgy 3. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

M. Miculan, I. Scagnetto, F. Honsell, eds. 2008. Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Midthun, K.T., and Tomasgard, A. 2010. Analysis of Natural Gas Value Chains. In Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, edited by Bjørndal, E., M. Bjørndal, P.M. Pardalos, and M. Rönnqvist, Energy Systems. 71–82. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Southeastern Geographer.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Have Researchers Finally Settled The Nature Vs Nurture Debate?. IFLScience, 19 May 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/have-researchers-settled-nature-vs-nurture-debate/ [Last accessed 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 1977. Comments on Senate Bill 991, A Bill to Establish a Department of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitbeck, D.C. 2013. Mapping of Sonoran Desert vegetation communities of San Cristobal Valley and southern Sentinel Plains, Barry M. Goldwater Range and variables influencing route proliferation in the Barry M. Goldwater Range’s San Cristobal Valley. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Koblin, J. 2017. Actor Takes On Netflix Over Documentary on Drug Kingpin. New York Times 20 October, : B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hill 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hill 2007, Greenwood and Owusu-Agyei 2012).

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

Two authors: (Greenwood and Owusu-Agyei 2012)
Three authors: (Schubert, Russell and Moore 2000)
4 or more authors: (Baptiste et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Southeastern Geographer
ISSN (print)	0038-366X
ISSN (online)	1549-6929
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