How to format your references using the Applied Geomatics citation style

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

Bowler PJ (2009) Darwin’s Originality. Science 323:223–226

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu R, Lal R (2014) Synthetic apatite nanoparticles as a phosphorus fertilizer for soybean (Glycine max). Sci Rep 4:5686

A journal article with 3 authors

Körtner G, Brigham RM, Geiser F (2000) Winter torpor in a large bird. Nature 407:318

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Iber D, Clarkson J, Yudkin MD, Campbell ID (2006) The mechanism of cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis. Nature 441:371–374

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huber PJ (2011) Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Peller P, Subramaniam R, Guermazi A (eds) (2012) PET-CT and PET-MRI in Oncology: A Practical Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao Y, Ai P, Wang H, et al (2015) Efficient Location-Dependent Skyline Queries in Wireless Broadcast Environments. In: Cheng R, Cui B, Zhang Z, et al. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications: 17th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2015, Guangzhou, China, September 18-20, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–54

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 Applied Geomatics.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Scientists Claim To Have Reversed Menopause. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-claim-to-have-reversed-menopause/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1979) Federal R&D Laboratories--Directors’ Perspectives on Management. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zimmerman TF (2010) A descriptive review of the development and implementation of a funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The first 10 years, 1998–2008. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Vecsey G (2010) Coaches Come and Go, Except JoePa. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowler 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bowler 2009; Liu and Lal 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Lal 2014)
Three or more authors: (Iber et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Geomatics
ISSN (print)	1866-9298
ISSN (online)	1866-928X
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Engineering (miscellaneous) Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development