AAG Style Guide

Annals of the Association of the American Geographers (AAG) Citation Style
In text citations: Author’s last name and year of publication. (Miller 2007) Multiple citations
should appear in date order and follow this punctuation format:
(Zuckerman 1972; Barrett 1989; McNaughton, Reese, and Barrett 1989; Turner 1992, 1993;
Parnell 1997a, 1997b)
Reference List: All sources in the text must be listed in the reference section and vice versa.
List all references alphabetically by the author’s last name and chronologically. Use a hanging
indent for multi-lined citations.
Single author examples: In the references section, three successive ―em‖ dashes should be
substituted for an author’s name (also for multiple authors) in second and subsequent citations
to that author as single author of a source.
Smythe-Jones, X. 1998. Copyediting: The authoritative tome. Cambridge, MA: Small Room
Press.
———. 1999. Copyediting: Some things I forgot about last time. Cambridge, MA: Small Room
Press.
Barber, C. 2010. A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming. Cistercian Studies Quarterly
45:221-223.
Bily, C. A. 2006. Global warming : opposing viewpoints. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven
Press/Thomson Gale.
Multiple author examples: The first author is last name, X. X., and then subsequent authors
are first and middle initials, last name, separated by commas until all are listed.
In text citations with up to three authors should use all author names; sources with more than
three authors should be cited every time using the first author name and ―et al. (et al. should
not be italicized.) Callifer et al. 1973
Smythe-Jones, X., L. Emmetson, and Q. Garraty. 1995. The art of copyediting: Nitpicking
never
ends. American Journal of Copyediting 27:167–89.
———. 2000. Further picking of nits: Five years later. American Journal of Copyediting 32 (2):
101–57.
Bowers, K., and S. D. Johnson. 2003. Measuring the geographical displacement and diffusion
of benefit effects of crime prevention activity. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19 (3):
275-301.
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Book
Bily, C. A. 2006. Global warming: opposing viewpoints. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven
Press/Thomson.
Goodell, J. 2010. How to cool the planet : geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix
Earth's climate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chapter in a book that has several authors and an editor
Michaels, P. J., and R. C. Balling Jr. 2009. Foreword: a climate of extremes. In Climate of
extremes:
global warming science they don't want you to know , ed. P. J. Michaels, 1-10.
Washington DC: Cato Institute.
———2009. A global warming science primer. In Climate of extremes: global warming science
they don’t want you to know, ed. P. J. Michaels, 11-38. Washington DC: Cato Institute.
Newspaper and weekly magazine articles All articles should be fully cited in the reference
section, rather than worked into the text of the paper. (This applies to articles from weekly
magazines, like Newsweek and The Economist, as well.) The full citation for a newspaper
article should include author (if any), title, name of newspaper, date, and page range of article.
Dates should be expressed in British fashion: 25 November 2000 (rather than November 25,
2000). In reference citations to newspapers and weekly magazines, the year should be placed
right after the author name(s), as in the model below, but the date and month should be kept in
British order:
Thompson, C. 2010. Disaster Capitalism. Mother Jones 35:32-37.
Will, G. F. 2010. The Earth Doesn't Care. Newsweek 156:26-26.
Sartain, R. M. 2000. Never a dull moment: Clinton staff trashes couch. Washington Post 25
November:A14.
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Scholarly journal articles: Articles found through databases do not need a last accessed
date or name of the database used. Citations are the same regardless of format. List all
authors. If a volume and issue are given, list the volume first and issue in parentheses.
Berg, R. 2008. The future of children's environmental health: coping with global warming.
Journal of Environmental Health 71:56-58.
Villagran, M., M. Weathers, B. Keefe, and L. Sparks. 2010. Medical providers as global
warming and climate change health educators: a health literacy approach.
Communication Education 59:312-327.
Bowers, K., and S. D. Johnson. 2003. Measuring the geographical displacement and diffusion
of benefit effects of crime prevention activity. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19 (3):
275-301.
Websites: Follow the same steps as other resources when available, ending with url
and last accessed date in British style.
Environmental Defense Fund. 2011. Global warming in environmental defense fund. New
York. http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=65 (last accessed 13 April 2011).
Springer, D. 2007. Integrating schools into healthy community design. Issue Brief. Washington
DC: National Governor’s Association. http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0705schoolshealthy
design.pdf (last accessed 8 January 2011).
U.S. Department of Justice. 2008. About maps. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/about.htm.
(last accessed 8 September 2008).
United States. 2009. Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Global
warming's growing concerns: Impacts on agriculture and forestry : hearing before the
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. House of
Representatives, One Hundred Tenth [i.e. Eleventh] Congress, second [i.e. first] session.
18 June. http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/HRG/FullTranscripts/111-6_2009-06-18.pdf
(last accessed 7 May 2011).
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. 2008. Directory of faculty and staff.
http://www.sfu.ca/criminology/facstaff/index.html (last accessed 8 October 2008).
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