How to format your references using the cultural geographies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for cultural geographies. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Q. Wang,
‘Rural students are being left behind in China’, Nature, 510, 2014, 445.
A journal article with 2 authors
J. E. Vidale and P. S. Earle,
‘Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core’, Nature, 404, 2000, 273–275.
A journal article with 3 authors
G. W. Rougier, S. Apesteguía and L. C. Gaetano,
‘Highly specialized mammalian skulls from the Late Cretaceous of South America’, Nature, 479, 2011, 98–102.
A journal article with 31 or more authors
S. S. Gao, P. G. Silver, A. T. Linde and I. S. Sacks,
‘Annual modulation of triggered seismicity following the 1992 Landers earthquake in California’, Nature, 406, 2000, 500–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
M. King,
Process Control (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016).
An edited book
R. Cerf,
The Wulff Crystal in Ising and Percolation Models: Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXIV - 2004 (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006), p. XIV, 264 p.
A chapter in an edited book
M. M. D’Elios, M. Benagiano, A. Amedei and G. Emmi,
‘Infections, Autoimmunity, and Behçet’s Syndrome: What Liaison?’, in L. Emmi (ed), Behçet’s Syndrome: From Pathogenesis to Treatment (Springer: Milano, 2014), pp. 39–51.

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 cultural geographies.

Blog post
T. Hale,
Shrimp Proves It’s Hardcore By Taking Down Dragonfish And Gets A Surprise Bonus, IFLScience, 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shrimp-proves-its-hardcore-by-taking-down-dragonfish-and-gets-a-surprise-bonus/. [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,
Aviation and the Environment: Results From a Survey of the Nation’s 50 Busiest Commercial Service Airports (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
R. L. Walther,
Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois (Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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
M. L. Dudziak,
‘Trump and America’s Promise’, New York Times, 2016, A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titlecultural geographies
AbbreviationCult. Geogr.
ISSN (print)1474-4740
ISSN (online)1477-0881
ScopeEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Cultural Studies

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