How to format your references using the Mobilities citation style

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

Leovy, C. 2001. “Weather and Climate on Mars.” Nature 412 (6843): 245–249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lawler, A., and J. Mervis. 2000. “2001 BUDGET: NSF and NASA Score Last-Minute Victories.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5492): 683a.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmitz, D., J. Mellor, and R. A. Nicoll. 2001. “Presynaptic Kainate Receptor Mediation of Frequency Facilitation at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5510): 1972–1976.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, Lisa Y., Kokab B. Parizi, Hisanori Kosuge, Kaveh M. Milaninia, Michael V. McConnell, H-S Philip Wong, and Ada S. Y. Poon. 2013. “Mass Fabrication and Delivery of 3D Multilayer μTags into Living Cells.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staebler, Patrick. 2017. Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Metwally, Mostafa, and Tin-Chiu Li, eds. 2015. Reproductive Surgery in Assisted Conception. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Baker, Bill J., Charles D. Amsler, and James B. McClintock. 2008. “Macroalgal Chemical Defenses in Polar Marine Communities.” In Algal Chemical Ecology, edited by Charles D. Amsler, 91–103. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Mobilities.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Spring Has Sprung: How Changes In Weather Affect Our Health.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 30. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spring-has-sprung-how-changes-weather-affect-our-health/.

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. 1998. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard--Model Year 2000. OGC-98-42. Washington, DC: 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

Truong, Thuyoanh. 2012. “Microfluidics-Based System for High-Throughput Analysis of Nitrite in Harbor Water.” 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

Barron, James. 2017. “Man Arrested in Strangling of a Jogger in Queens.” New York Times, February 5, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leovy 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Leovy 2001; Lawler and Mervis 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lawler and Mervis 2000)
Three authors: (Schmitz, Mellor, and Nicoll 2001)
4 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mobilities
Abbreviation	Mobilities
ISSN (print)	1745-0101
ISSN (online)	1745-011X
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science Demography