The Sheffield Geography web citation system

We have adopted a standard citation system (broadly based on APA Reference List Style) for all publication lists on our web pages.

The aim is to make attractive, clear, readable and useful publication lists. Hopefully including DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) will make your publications more accessible and potentially cited more often. The clearer layout should also increase rankings in search engines.

Citations for journals, etc

1. List of article authors - Surname followed by comma then initals separated by full stops; featured Sheffield author in bold; authors separated by commas; final author separated by 'and'
2. Year of publication in brackets, followed by full stop
3. Article title, follwed by full stop
4. Journal title in full, in italics, followed by comma
5. Journal volume number, with issue number in brackets - no space in between - followed by comma
6. Page numbers, followed by full stop
7. DOI (available from journal web site, PDF of article or the CrossRef web site)

Citations for books, etc

Similar to journal articles, except:

1. List of book authors - prefixed by "In:"; if more then two authors use 'et al'; follow by (ed.) or (eds.) if an edited publication
2. Publisher details including place of publication if possible, followed by full stop
3. Page numbers, followed by full stop