How to format your references using the Geographica Helvetica citation style

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

Inan, U.: Atmospheric science. Gamma rays made on Earth, Science, 307, 1054–1055, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner, D. B. and Nelson, K. A.: Coherent measurements of high-order electronic correlations in quantum wells, Nature, 466, 1089–1092, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli, D., Bisconti, R., and Nascetti, G.: Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications, Sci. Rep., 4, 6516, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

You, J. Q., Wang, Z. D., Zhang, W., and Nori, F.: Encoding a qubit with Majorana modes in superconducting circuits, Sci. Rep., 4, 5535, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Gumster, J. and Shimonski, R.: GIMP Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

Geroimenko, V. (Ed.): Augmented Reality Art: From an Emerging Technology to a Novel Creative Medium, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVIII, 314 p. 169 illus., 132 illus. in color p., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Juth, N. and Munthe, C.: Case Studies, in: The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?, edited by: Munthe, C., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 99–126, 2012.

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 Geographica Helvetica.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Active Neurons Protect Mice Against Depression, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/active-neurons-protect-mice-against-depression/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2014., 2014.

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: Land Management Systems: BLM Faces Risks in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System, AIMD-97-42, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo, J.: Project Share: Implementing an aftercare program for recovering adolescents: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Kramer, A. E.: Remembering Slain Critic of Putin, Tens of Thousands March in Moscow, , New York Times2nd MarchA4, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Inan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Inan, 2005; Turner and Nelson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Turner and Nelson, 2010)
Three or more authors: (You et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geographica Helvetica
Abbreviation	Geogr. Helv.
ISSN (print)	0016-7312
ISSN (online)	2194-8798
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