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

Abbott, A.: Hunt for Higgs particle wins time for CERN collider. Nature. 407, 276 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane, M.A., Evans, M.: CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule? Science. 290, 1107–1108 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mogilner, A., Allard, J., Wollman, R.: Cell polarity: quantitative modeling as a tool in cell biology. Science. 336, 175–179 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Walther, T.C., Askjaer, P., Gentzel, M., Habermann, A., Griffiths, G., Wilm, M., Mattaj, I.W., Hetzer, M.: RanGTP mediates nuclear pore complex assembly. Nature. 424, 689–694 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, J., Gaare, M., Holguín, J., Bailey, N., Pratley, T.: Professional Clojure. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA (2016)

An edited book

Uebel, T.E.: Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, A.H.S., Chan, K.W.L.: Proposal of New Paradigm for Hand and Foot Controls in the Context of Spatial Compatibility Effect. In: Chan, A.H.S. and Ao, S.-I. (eds.) Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. pp. 57–65. Springer US, Boston, MA (2008)

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

Davis, J.: Elephants Born To Stressed Mothers Age Faster

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: Aircraft Maintenance: FAA Needs to Follow Through on Plans to Ensure the Safety of Aging Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, K.: Comparing high school physics standards: What is included and what is not, (2011)

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

Zecher, L.K.: The Path to Publishing, (2013)

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