How to format your references using the Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Schapira, M. (2015). STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Chromatin complex, crystal clear. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6258), 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ebert, D. H., & Greenberg, M. E. (2013). Activity-dependent neuronal signalling and autism spectrum disorder. Nature, 493(7432), 327–337.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGuire, J. J., Boettcher, M. S., & Jordan, T. H. (2005). Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults. Nature, 434(7032), 457–461.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lücke, B., Scherer, M., Kruse, J., Pezzé, L., Deuretzbacher, F., Hyllus, P., et al. (2011). Twin matter waves for interferometry beyond the classical limit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 773–776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heckman, R. (2016). Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atienza Alonso, D. (2015). Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems. (S. Mamagkakis, C. Poucet, M. Peón-Quirós, A. Bartzas, F. Catthoor, & D. Soudris, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodrigues, E. R., & Achcar, J. A. (2013). Modeling the Time Between Ozone Exceedances. In J. A. Achcar (Ed.), Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies (pp. 65–78). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 14). Two Teams Of Scientists Have Created A New State Of Matter. 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. (1987). Federal Patent Policy (No. T-RCED-87-26). 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

Diorio, C. A. (2010). The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Schwartz, J. (2016, October 27). Measure in Florida That Claims to Support Solar Power Could Discourage It. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schapira 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ebert and Greenberg 2013; Schapira 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ebert and Greenberg 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lücke et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Abbreviation	Appl. Spat. Anal. Policy
ISSN (print)	1874-463X
ISSN (online)	1874-4621
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development