How to format your references using the Geodiversitas citation style

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

Brenner M.P. 2000. — Fluid mechanics. Jets from a singular surface. Nature 403 (6768): 377–378

A journal article with 2 authors

Loring J.F. & Campbell C. 2006. — Science and law. Intellectual property and human embryonic stem cell research. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5768): 1716–1717

A journal article with 3 authors

Szemenyei H., Hannon M. & Long J.A. 2008. — TOPLESS mediates auxin-dependent transcriptional repression during Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5868): 1384–1386

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Feinerman O., Veiga J., Dorfman J.R., Germain R.N. & Altan-Bonnet G. 2008. — Variability and robustness in T cell activation from regulated heterogeneity in protein levels. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5892): 1081–1084

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan J.P. 2016. — The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gaïti, D. (Ed.) 2007. — Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, IV: Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Lannion, France, November 14–18, 2005Vol. 229. Boston, MA, Springer US. VIII, 354 p p. (IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing).

A chapter in an edited book

Alpay D., Colombo F. & Sabadini I. 2016. — Finite-dimensional Preliminaries, in Colombo F. & Sabadini I. (eds.), Slice Hyperholomorphic Schur Analysis. Cham, Springer International Publishing. p. 51–69. (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications).

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 Geodiversitas.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. — What Causes Cerebral Palsy And Can It Be Prevented?Available from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-causes-cerebral-palsy-and-can-it-be-prevented/ [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 2002. — Human Services Integration: Results of a GAO Cosponsored Conference on Modernizing Information Systems N^oGAO-02-121. 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

Frisbee K.L. 2015. — The impact of mobile health (mhealth) technology on family caregiver’s burden levels and an assessment of variations in mhealth tool use Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC, George Washington 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

Crow K. 2002. — When the City Says Show Me, It Means It. New York Times: 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brenner 2000; Loring & Campbell 2006).

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

Two authors: (Loring & Campbell 2006)
Three or more authors: (Feinerman et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geodiversitas
ISSN (print)	1280-9659
ISSN (online)	1638-9395
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