How to format your references using the Spatial Demography citation style

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

Sarkar, C. A. (2013). Cell signaling. Concentrating (on) native proteins to control cell fate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6152), 1349–1351.

A journal article with 2 authors

Canfield, D. E., & Kump, L. R. (2013). Geochemistry. Carbon cycle makeover. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6119), 533–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Opher, M., Stone, E. C., & Gombosi, T. I. (2007). The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5826), 875–878.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tavazoie, S. F., Alarcón, C., Oskarsson, T., Padua, D., Wang, Q., Bos, P. D., et al. (2008). Endogenous human microRNAs that suppress breast cancer metastasis. Nature, 451(7175), 147–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn, G. (2005). HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Montijano, E. (2015). Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems. (C. Sagüés, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hwang, L. C., Hohlbein, J., Holden, S. J., & Kapanidis, A. N. (2009). Single-Molecule FRET: Methods and Biological Applications. In P. Hinterdorfer & A. Oijen (Eds.), Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics (pp. 129–163). New York, NY: Springer US.

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 Spatial Demography.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 14). Playing Tetris Could Reduce Cravings For Drugs, Food and Sex. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2009). Information Technology: Census Bureau Needs to Strengthen Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems (No. GAO-09-413T). 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

Crawford, J. D. (2017). Teacher Job Satisfaction as Related to Student Performance on State-Mandated Testing (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 22). A Rich Baseball History, Now on Display. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarkar 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Canfield and Kump 2013; Sarkar 2013).

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

Two authors: (Canfield and Kump 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tavazoie et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Spatial Demography
Abbreviation	Spat. Demogr.
ISSN (print)	2364-2289
ISSN (online)	2164-7070
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