How to format your references using the Annals of the Association of American Geographers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Mitchell, K. 2010. Journal club. A neurodevelopmental geneticist explores how one mutation can lead to multiple diseases. Nature 464 (7292):1107.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wentz, F. J., and L. Ricciardulli. 2011. Comment on “Global trends in wind speed and wave height.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6058):905; author reply 905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wible, B., J. Mervis, and N. S. Wigginton. 2014. The global supply chain. Rethinking the global supply chain. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344 (6188):1100–1103.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Evrard, O., C. Chartin, Y. Onda, J. Patin, H. Lepage, I. Lefèvre, S. Ayrault, C. Ottlé, and P. Bonté. 2013. Evolution of radioactive dose rates in fresh sediment deposits along coastal rivers draining Fukushima contamination plume. Scientific reports 3:3079.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stafford, F. 2012. Reading Romantic Poetry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Song, W. W., S. Xu, C. Wan, Y. Zhong, W. Wojtkowski, G. Wojtkowski, and H. Linger eds. 2011. Information Systems Development: Asian Experiences. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Forciea, M. A., and J. Yudin. 2008. Home-Based Care of the Older Patient. In Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries, eds. R. J. Pignolo, M. K. Crane, and M. A. Forciea, 27–32. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. Dark Matter Might Not Be As Dark As We Thought. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-matter-not-so-dark/ (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. 1992. Mass Transit Grants: If Properly Implemented, FTA Initiatives Should Improve Oversight. 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

Sharma, V. 2017. Functional Characterization of Na+/Ca2+ Exchangers in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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

Stewart, J. B. 2017. C.E.O.s Long Avoided Politics. Trump Is Changing the Calculus. New York Times 17 August:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mitchell 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mitchell 2010; Wentz and Ricciardulli 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wentz and Ricciardulli 2011)
Three authors: (Wible, Mervis, and Wigginton 2014)
4 or more authors: (Evrard et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Abbreviation	Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr.
ISSN (print)	0004-5608
ISSN (online)	1467-8306
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development