How to format your references using the International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. 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

Pollitzer, E. (2013). Biology: Cell sex matters. Nature, 500(7460), 23–24.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finkel, T., & Holbrook, N. J. (2000). Oxidants, oxidative stress and the biology of ageing. Nature, 408(6809), 239–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cavazzana-Calvo, M., Thrasher, A., & Mavilio, F. (2004). The future of gene therapy. Nature, 427(6977), 779–781.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Auluck, P. K., Chan, H. Y. E., Trojanowski, J. Q., Lee, V. M. Y., & Bonini, N. M. (2002). Chaperone suppression of alpha-synuclein toxicity in a Drosophila model for Parkinson’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 865–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, R. C. (2010). The Hedge Fund Book. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Taams, L. S., Wauben, M. H. M., & Akbar, A. N. (Eds.). (2005). Regulatory T Cells in Inflammation. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Xi, W., & He, P. (2010). Prediction of Urban Heat Island Intensity in Chuxiong City with Backpropagation Neural Network. In Z. Zeng & J. Wang (Eds.), Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications (pp. 29–36). 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 International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 29). Groundbreaking Test For Parkinson’s Disease Could Lead To Early Detection. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/groundbreaking-test-parkinsons-disease-lead-early-detection/

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. (1988). Highway Safety: Monitoring Practices To Show Compliance With Speed Limits Should Be Reexamined (RCED-88-93BR). 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

Volle, M. (2017). Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Ahmed, A., & Semple, K. (2017, September 18). Hurricane Gains Force And Targets Caribbean. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pollitzer, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000; Pollitzer, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Auluck et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Abbreviation	Int. Res. Geogr. Environ. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1038-2046
ISSN (online)	1747-7611
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Education Geography, Planning and Development