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

Butler, D. (2001). The battle of Tugen Hills. Nature, 410(6828), 508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, W., & Angell, C. A. (2003). Solvent-free electrolytes with aqueous solution-like conductivities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5644), 422–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falck, J., Coates, J., & Jackson, S. P. (2005). Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage. Nature, 434(7033), 605–611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chung, K. K. K., Thomas, B., Li, X., Pletnikova, O., Troncoso, J. C., Marsh, L., et al. (2004). S-nitrosylation of parkin regulates ubiquitination and compromises parkin’s protective function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1328–1331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, E. M. (2006). Advances in Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bertolotto, M., Ray, C., & Li, X. (Eds.). (2008). Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5373). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Budhu, A., & Wang, X. W. (2016). Molecular Profiling of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In B. I. Carr (Ed.), Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 93–112). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, May 20). Spouses Tend To Have Similar DNA. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spouses-tend-have-similar-dna/. 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. (2007). Assigning Air Traffic Control Costs to Users: Elements of FAA’s Methodology Are Generally Consistent with Standards but Certain Assumptions and Methods Need Additional Support (No. GAO-08-76). 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

Nichols, J. (2012). Genetic and genomic mechanisms of neonatal hyperoxic lung injury in the inbred mouse (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, May 1). They’re Like a Sitcom. Really. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2001; Xu and Angell 2003).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Angell 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chung et al. 2004)

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