How to format your references using the Geometriae Dedicata citation style

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

Ludvigsson, J.F.: Recruiters and academia. Hard times for Swedish physician-researchers. Nature. 434, 542 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Raşa, M., Philipse, A.P.: Evidence for a macroscopic electric field in the sedimentation profiles of charged colloids. Nature. 429, 857–860 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lorsch, J.R., Collins, F.S., Lippincott-Schwartz, J.: Cell Biology. Fixing problems with cell lines. Science. 346, 1452–1453 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kops, G.J.P.L., Dansen, T.B., Polderman, P.E., Saarloos, I., Wirtz, K.W.A., Coffer, P.J., Huang, T.-T., Bos, J.L., Medema, R.H., Burgering, B.M.T.: Forkhead transcription factor FOXO3a protects quiescent cells from oxidative stress. Nature. 419, 316–321 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meiswinkel, R., Meyer, J., Schnell, J.: Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Ning, P., Qing, S., Li, N. eds: Information and Communications Security: 8th International Conference, ICICS 2006, Raleigh, NC, USA, December 4-7, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Kotsia, I., Guo, W., Patras, I.: Higher Rank Support Tensor Machines. In: Bebis, G., Boyle, R., Parvin, B., Koracin, D., Fowlkes, C., Wang, S., Choi, M.-H., Mantler, S., Schulze, J., Acevedo, D., Mueller, K., and Papka, M. (eds.) Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. pp. 31–40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Geometriae Dedicata.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Monkey Muggers Steal Tourists’ Belongings, Holding Them For Ransom In Exchange For Food

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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beattie, L.J.: Meeting the Needs of Low Income Students, (2013)

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

Saslow, L.: On Nassau Ballot, an Open-Space Bond Issue, (2006)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Geometriae Dedicata
Abbreviation	Geom. Dedicata
ISSN (print)	0046-5755
ISSN (online)	1572-9168
Scope	Geometry and Topology