Policy for the dissemination of content and bibliographies

Publication Formats

Articles and other scientific content are published in at least PDF (the primary publication format, compatible with digital preservation standards such as PDF/A).

Citation of Sources

Articles follow internationally recognized citation standards. The journal adopts:

  • APA, Vancouver, Harvard, and other citation formats.
  • The use of DOI as a persistent identifier for bibliographic references.

Exporting citations to reference managers

To facilitate reference management, the journal provides citation export in the following formats:

  • RIS (compatible with EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero)
  • BibTeX (for LaTeX and academic reference managers)

Diffusion on social networks

To maximize the impact of research results and ensure adequate visibility for those who produce them, we leverage the possibilities offered by new technologies, such as scientific and general social networks, academic search engines, specialized databases, author profiles, and institutional and thematic repositories.

GeoFocus publishes its articles in open access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and also provides a persistent digital identifier ( DOI, Digital Object Identifier) to each article. Authors should never generate a new DOI for an article already published in the journal, as this fragments the visibility and impact of the work (multiple bibliographic records, scattered citation counts, etc.), directly harming the calculation and accreditation of the impact of publications in scientific evaluation processes.

Once the document is available online, the GeoFocus editorial team recommends taking the following dissemination actions to increase the visibility of the work.

  • Although the journal is indexed in numerous databases and even by the main search engines such as Google Scholar , we recommend also depositing the article in the institutional repository that the group of authors consider most representative and/or in a thematic repository related to the subject of the article, or in Ze n odo , the repository of the European Commission.
  • Announce the publication of the article on the main scientific and professional social media platforms where you maintain an active profile: Academia, ResearchGate, Mendeley, or LinkedIn. Only the reference, abstract, and DOI are required.
  • Include your work in public research profiles, such as ORCID or ResearcherID.
  • Share the post with the main people it quotes.
  • Add a reference to the latest published article to your email signature.
  • Contact the communications and scientific outreach services of the authors' institution to disseminate the results through specialized media and the general press.
  • Consider making contributions to Wikipedia.
  • If you have a blog or website, you can publish a post about the article aimed at the general public, always remembering to include the full reference to the article and its DOI.