How to format your references using the Geoenvironmental Disasters citation style

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

Mahaffy, Paul R. 2005. Intensive Titan exploration begins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, M., and K. Thornton. 2001. Gene duplication and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293: 1551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ding, Waverly W., Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart. 2006. Gender differences in patenting in the academic life sciences. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 665–667.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lifshitz, Y., X. F. Duan, N. G. Shang, Q. Li, L. Wan, I. Bello, and S. T. Lee. 2001. Nanostructure. Epitaxial diamond polytypes on silicon. Nature 412: 404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, James T. 1999. Methods of Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Root, Randal. 2006. A Tester’s Guide to .NET Programming. Edited by Mary Romero Sweeney. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Bilò, Davide, Luca Forlizzi, and Guido Proietti. 2008. Approximating the Metric TSP in Linear Time. In Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 34th International Workshop, WG 2008, Durham, UK, June 30 – July 2, 2008. Revised Papers, ed. Hajo Broersma, Thomas Erlebach, Tom Friedetzky, and Daniel Paulusma, 43–54. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Geoenvironmental Disasters.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. Star Clusters Are Responsible For Dusting Up Galaxies. IFLScience. IFLScience. December 5.

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. 2008. Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight. GAO-08-756. 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

Russo, C. Allison. 2014. The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old. 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

Whiteside, Kelly. 2016. With City Passing By in a Blur, a Star Adds Yet Another Title. New York Times, November 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mahaffy 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Long and Thornton 2001; Mahaffy 2005).

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

Two authors: (Long and Thornton 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lifshitz et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoenvironmental Disasters
ISSN (online)	2197-8670
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