How to format your references using the The Journal of Geometric Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Geometric Analysis. 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

Rees, M.: Time for global statistics we can count on. Nature. 502, 273 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

López-Carr, D., Marter-Kenyon, J.: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement. Nature. 517, 265–267 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilg, O., Hanski, I., Sittler, B.: Cyclic dynamics in a simple vertebrate predator-prey community. Science. 302, 866–868 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pearce, M.J., Mintseris, J., Ferreyra, J., Gygi, S.P., Darwin, K.H.: Ubiquitin-like protein involved in the proteasome pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Science. 322, 1104–1107 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, S.: Reading the American Novel 1780-1865. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

Granville, A., Rudnick, Z. eds: Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Stollberg, M., Fensel, D.: Semantics for Service-Oriented Architectures. In: Griffiths, N. and Chao, K.-M. (eds.) Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing. pp. 113–139. Springer, London (2010)

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 The Journal of Geometric Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Origins Of Mysterious “Sprite” Lightning Discovered, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/origins-mysterious-sprite-lightning-discovered/

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: Satellite Communications: Strategic Approach Needed for DOD’s Procurement of Commercial Satellite Bandwidth. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Besson, P.S.: Affective Organizational Commitment: A Comparative View of the Experience of 5-7 Year Managerial Employees Who Participated in an Employee Identity Network, (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

Conte, L.: Scouting Report, (2011)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Geometric Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Geom. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1050-6926
ISSN (online)	1559-002X
Scope	Geometry and Topology