How to format your references using the Geocarto International citation style

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

Maldovan M. 2013. Sound and heat revolutions in phononics. Nature. 503(7475):209–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jesson LK, Barrett SCH. 2002. Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers. Nature. 417(6890):707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong X, Wang Y, Xia Y. 2014. Re-building Daniell cell with a Li-ion exchange film. Sci Rep. 4:6916.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Vassylyev DG, Vassylyeva MN, Perederina A, Tahirov TH, Artsimovitch I. 2007. Structural basis for transcription elongation by bacterial RNA polymerase. Nature. 448(7150):157–162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silverstein D, Samuel P, Decarlo N. 2008. The Innovator’s Toolkit. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kröger F. 2008. Temporal Logic and State Systems. Merz S, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alexander Z, Mytkowicz T, Diwan A, Bradley E. 2010. Measurement and Dynamical Analysis of Computer Performance Data. In: Cohen PR, Adams NM, Berthold MR, editors. Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International Symposium, IDA 2010, Tucson, AZ, USA, May 19-21, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 18–29.

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 Geocarto International.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. “Scarface,” The Beloved Bear Of Yellowstone Park, Has Been Killed. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Transportation Trust Funds. 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

MacKinder M. 2010. Max the Knife, Salesman [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

George T. 2016. Thumbelina’s Secret Architect. New York Times.:A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maldovan 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jesson and Barrett 2002; Maldovan 2013).

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

Two authors: (Jesson and Barrett 2002)
Three or more authors: (Vassylyev et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geocarto International
Abbreviation	Geocarto Int.
ISSN (print)	1010-6049
ISSN (online)	1752-0762
Scope	Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development