How to format your references using the Southeastern Geographer citation style

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

Cowan, J. 2007. Astronomy: a constant surprise. Nature 448 (7149): 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beg, A.A., and Scheiffele, P. 2006. Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5763): 962–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goncharov, A.F., Struzhkin, V.V., and Jacobsen, S.D. 2006. Reduced radiative conductivity of low-spin (Mg,Fe)O in the lower mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5777): 1205–1208.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Lummis, S.C.R. et al. 2005. Cis-trans isomerization at a proline opens the pore of a neurotransmitter-gated ion channel. Nature 438 (7065): 248–252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henden, J. 2011. Beating Combat Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

J. Valsiner, P.C.M. Molenaar, M.C.D.P. Lyra, N. Chaudhary, eds. 2009. Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences. New York, NY: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Malczewski, J., and Rinner, C. 2015. Multiobjective Optimization Methods. In Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science, edited by Rinner, C., Advances in Geographic Information Science. 123–143. 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 Southeastern Geographer.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Playing With Fire: The Economics And Network Of Fire And Haze. IFLScience, 21 September 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/playing-fire-economics-and-network-fire-and-haze/ [Last accessed 30 October 2018].

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 2007. NASA: Agency Has Taken Steps Toward Making Sound Investment Decisions for Ares I but Still Faces Challenging Knowledge Gaps. 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

McCorkle, W.B. 2005. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hennessey, S. 2017. Did Trump Violate His Oath of Office? New York Times 16 May, : A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cowan 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Beg and Scheiffele 2006, Cowan 2007).

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

Two authors: (Beg and Scheiffele 2006)
Three authors: (Goncharov, Struzhkin and Jacobsen 2006)
4 or more authors: (Lummis et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Southeastern Geographer
ISSN (print)	0038-366X
ISSN (online)	1549-6929
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