How to format your references using the Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 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

Bortman, H. (2000). Requiem for an observatory. Nature, 405(6786), 504–506.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yethiraj, A., & van Blaaderen, A. (2003). A colloidal model system with an interaction tunable from hard sphere to soft and dipolar. Nature, 421(6922), 513–517.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rossi, D. J., Oshima, T., & Attwell, D. (2000). Glutamate release in severe brain ischaemia is mainly by reversed uptake. Nature, 403(6767), 316–321.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, Y., Balédent, V., Yu, G., Barišić, N., Hradil, K., Mole, R. A., Sidis, Y., Steffens, P., Zhao, X., Bourges, P., & Greven, M. (2010). Hidden magnetic excitation in the pseudogap phase of a high-T(c) superconductor. Nature, 468(7321), 283–285.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, P. (2008). The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Matucci-Cerinic, M., Furst, D., & Fiorentino, D. (Eds.). (2014). Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakajima, K. (2015). Economic Geography and Interfirm Transaction Networks. In T. Watanabe, I. Uesugi, & A. Ono (Eds.), The Economics of Interfirm Networks (pp. 95–106). Springer Japan.

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 Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, August 14). Boulder Leaves Dotted Line Trail On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/boulder-leaves-dotted-line-trail-mars/

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. (1972). Award of an Army Advanced Development Contract in 1971 to the Boeing Company Calling for the Design Fabrication and Testing of Certain Critical Advanced Technology Components (B-176701). 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

He, C. (2005). Advanced Wavelet Application for Video Compression and Video Object Tracking [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2002, August 25). Russian Novelist Scoffs at Post-Soviet Leaders. New York Times, 114.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bortman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bortman, 2000; Yethiraj & van Blaaderen, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yethiraj & van Blaaderen, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography
Abbreviation	Geogr. Tidsskr.
ISSN (print)	0016-7223
ISSN (online)	1903-2471
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geography, Planning and Development