How to format your references using the Journal of Geometric Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geometric Analysis. 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

Buchanan, M.: A game of chance. Nature. 419, 787 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Screen, J.A., Simmonds, I.: The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification. Nature. 464, 1334–1337 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kislev, M.E., Hartmann, A., Bar-Yosef, O.: Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science. 312, 1372–1374 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shepherd, A., Wingham, D.J., Mansley, J.A., Corr, H.F.: Inland thinning of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica. Science. 291, 862–864 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson, H.: Cable-Stayed Bridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2012)

An edited book

Napier, S., Bingham, M. eds: Transporters as Targets for Drugs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, E., Güntürk, C.S., Krahmer, F., Saab, R., Yılmaz, Ö.: Noise-Shaping Quantization Methods for Frame-Based and Compressive Sampling Systems. In: Pfander, G.E. (ed.) Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments. pp. 157–184. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Journal of Geometric Analysis.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Pig-Like “Bacon Turtle” Swam The Ancient Waterways Of Utah

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: Information Management: Issues Important to Farmers Home Administration Systems Modernization. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Israel, J.M.: Student Extracurricular Participation, Student Achievement, and School Perception: an Elementary School Perspective, (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

Pilon, M.: Can’t Play by the Rules? It’s Fine by Mr. Monopoly, (2014)

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	Journal of Geometric Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Geom. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1050-6926
ISSN (online)	1559-002X
Scope	Geometry and Topology