How to format your references using the Journal of Maps citation style

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

Taubes, G. (2000). ASTRONOMY: Researchers Get Spectrum Bands. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5474), 2107–2109.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catania, K. C., & Remple, F. E. (2005). Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. Nature, 433(7025), 519–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huffard, C. L., Boneka, F., & Full, R. J. (2005). Underwater bipedal locomotion by octopuses in disguise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1927.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Galy, V., France-Lanord, C., Beyssac, O., Faure, P., Kudrass, H., & Palhol, F. (2007). Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system. Nature, 450(7168), 407–410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie, P. R., & Keough, G. E. (2008). An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Niekerk, A. V. (Ed.). (2005). Ethics in Agriculture — An African Perspective. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Eichel, J. A., Bizheva, K. K., Clausi, D. A., & Fieguth, P. W. (2010). Automated 3D Reconstruction and Segmentation from Optical Coherence Tomography. In K. Daniilidis, P. Maragos, & N. Paragios (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 44–57). 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 Journal of Maps.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 21). British Soldiers Sent To Gabon To Help Tackle Ivory Poaching. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1982). Analysis of the Energy Research and Development Budget Proposal Process (RCED-83-6). 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

Jones, C. (2015). Evolutionary changes in development associated with a transition in larval nutritional mode in spiralians [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gordon, M. R. (2017, May 25). U.S.-Russia Hotline Buzzes Even After Strike on Syria. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taubes, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Catania & Remple, 2005; Taubes, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Catania & Remple, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Galy et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Maps
Abbreviation	J. Maps
ISSN (online)	1744-5647
Scope