How to format your references using the Social Geography citation style

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

Smaglik, P.: Cash incentives, Nature, 427, 567, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Roy, P. and Briggs, D. E. G.: A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid, Nature, 473, 510–513, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pandey, S., Goswami, G. K., and Nanda, K. K.: Nanocomposite based flexible ultrasensitive resistive gas sensor for chemical reactions studies, Sci. Rep., 3, 2082, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Smalley, R., Jr, Ellis, M. A., Paul, J., and Van Arsdale, R. B.: Space geodetic evidence for rapid strain rates in the New Madrid seismic zone of central USA, Nature, 435, 1088–1090, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Avlonas, N. and Nassos, G. P.: Practical Sustainability Strategies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Guglielmi, M., Kickelbick, G., and Martucci, A. (Eds.): Sol-Gel Nanocomposites, Springer, New York, NY, IX, 227 p. 145 illus., 9 illus. in color p., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Danylenko, A.: Iazychie and Surzhyk: Mixing Languages and Identities in the Ukrainian Borderlands, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders, edited by: Kamusella, T., Nomachi, M., and Gibson, C., Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 81–100, 2016.

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 Social Geography.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: North Korean Scientist Defects; Will Testify On Human Experimentation, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biochemical-researcher-defects-north-korea-finland/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: Major NIH Computer System: Poor Management Resulted in Unmet Scientists’ Needs and Wasted Millions, IMTEC-92-5, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Porter, L. A.: Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA): What emergency managers need to know, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2010.

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, J.: It’s Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule, , New York Times25th JuneA20, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Van Roy and Briggs, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Van Roy and Briggs, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Smalley et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Geography
ISSN (print)	1729-4274
ISSN (online)	1729-4312
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