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

Dalton, R.: Los Alamos “loses” key weapons data. Nature. 405, 725 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Riser, S.C., Johnson, K.S.: Net production of oxygen in the subtropical ocean. Nature. 451, 323–325 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuba, H., Ishii, T.M., Ohmori, H.: Axonal site of spike initiation enhances auditory coincidence detection. Nature. 444, 1069–1072 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Esplugues, E., Huber, S., Gagliani, N., Hauser, A.E., Town, T., Wan, Y.Y., O’Connor, W., Jr, Rongvaux, A., Van Rooijen, N., Haberman, A.M., Iwakura, Y., Kuchroo, V.K., Kolls, J.K., Bluestone, J.A., Herold, K.C., Flavell, R.A.: Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine. Nature. 475, 514–518 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin, C., Escobar, F., Serradj, A.: New Approaches in Thematic Cartography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Martens, U.M. ed: Small Molecules in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Kar, S., Das, N.: Climate Change, Agricultural Production, and Poverty in India. In: Heshmati, A., Maasoumi, E., and Wan, G. (eds.) Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia. pp. 55–76. Springer, Singapore (2015)

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

Fang, J.: Blue-Footed Boobies Camouflage Eggs With Dirt, And It Works

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: Emergency Preparedness: Current Emergency Alert System Has Limitations, and Development of a New Integrated System Will Be Challenging. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stein, E.: Oncology Summer Camp Attendance and Self-Esteem and Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors Among Pediatric Cancer Patients and Siblings, (2017)

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

Tierney, J.: Easy Ways to Mend Your Marriage, (2017)

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