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Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde

The most important pages in the authors’ area

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

Contribution header

In addition to the original title, provide an english translation of the main heading and the subheading (unless they are already in English).
Abstracts and keywords in English as well as keywords in German are obligatory in contributions for Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde. There is no German abstract.

Citavi

As of Citavi 6, the Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde has its own citation style. This can be imported as follows: via the “Citation” menu [, open “Citation styles”[ “Change citation style”. Click on “Search and add style”. In the “Name” field, enter: “Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde”. Activate the option box in front of the style name and click on “Add” and “OK”.
In Word Add-ins, select the style on the “Citavi” tab. Click on the selection arrow behind “Citation style” and select “Add citation style”. In the “Name” field, enter: “Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde”, activate the option box in front of the style name and click on “Apply”.

Abbreviated references in the text

Please use small capitals for the words that appear in CAPITAL LETTERS in these guidelines.
References are placed directly in the text body in brackets. The source is given in brackets in SMALL CAPITALS after the statement that is to be referenced. The abbreviated reference follows the author-year principle:

Here is a statement which needs to be referenced (LOUIS 1956, 27)

Two authors are joined with “&”; with more than two authors, the name of the first person is followed by “et al.”:

In the case of two: (MILLER & SCHMIDT 2016, 34)

In the case of more than two: (MILLER et al. 2012, 17 f.)

Several abbreviated references of different works one after the other are separated by semicolons:

Here is a statement which needs to be referenced (LOUIS 1956, 27; LEHMANN1954, 134 ff.)

If there are several publications by one person from the same year, they are differentiated by a lowercase letter after the year:

(LOUIS 1956a, 27; LOUIS 1956b, 225 ff.)

Here, lowercase letters are allotted according to the alphabetical order of the titles of works from the same year.

Detailed references in the bibliography

The detailed bibliographic information is provided in a bibliography at the end of each contribution.
The names of researchers should be in SMALL CAPITALS.
First names are abbreviated to initials.
If the author has two or more initials, there is no space between them:

DYNES, R.R.

QUARANTELLI, E.L.

In the bibliography, “et al.” is not used when there is more than one author. Instead, all names are given. From the second author on, the initial letter of the first name comes before the surname:

SCHULZ, B. & M. BLOGGS & W. WACKER

The abbreviation of organisations is capitalised but their explanation is in normal type:

DKKV (Deutsches Komitee fuer Katastrophenvorsorge e. V.)

If there are two places of publication, they are separated by a slash; with more than two, “[et al.]” is used:

Stuttgart/Weimar

Cologne [et al.]

In English and French main headings and subheadings all nouns, adjectives and verbs are capitalised, but not articles, pronouns etc.

Monographies

NAME year: Title. Subtitle. Place (= series, volume).

SCHULTE, A. 2000: Zwischen Diskriminierung und Demokratisierung. Frankfurt am Main (= Materialien zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 112).

SCHULZ, B. & M. MUSTERFRAU 2010: Zwischen Demokratisierung und Diskriminierung. Heidelberg/Berlin (= Materialien zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 132).

SCHULZ, B. & M. MUSTERFRAU & W. WACKER 2016: Demokratisierung und Diskriminierung. Tipps und Tricks fuer den politischen Alltag. Köln [et al.] (= Bevölkerungswissenschaftliche Arbeiten, 3).

Journal contribution

NAME year: Title. Subtitle. In: Full journal title volume, issue, page numbers.

FAEHNDRICH, J. 2013: Heimat oder Hin und zurück. Ein Essay über Bleiben, Gehen und Wiederkommen. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 87, 4, p. 459–469.

Contribution in an edited volume

NAME year: Title. Subtitle. In: NAME (ed.): Title. Subtitle. place, page numbers (= series, volume).

BECK, G. 2004: Wandern gegen den Strom. West Ost Migration in Deutschland. In: SWIACZNY, F. & S. HAUG (ed.): Bevölkerungsgeographische Forschung zur Migration und Integration. Wiesbaden, p. 95–111 (= Materialien zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 112).

Online sources

NAME year: Title. DOI [or] URL (access date DD.MM.YYYY).

STATISTISCHES BÜRO LETTLANDS: IBG021. International Long-term Emigration by Country Group.URL: http://www.csb.gov.lv/ (access date 21.03.2014).