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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Centre stage in Missouri. Nature, 431(7009), 720–721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray-Gallet, D., & Almouzni, G. (2010). Molecular biology. Mixing or not mixing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5974), 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi, J. S., Du, M., & Zajac, A. J. (2009). A vital role for interleukin-21 in the control of a chronic viral infection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1572–1576.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hierro, A., Rojas, A. L., Rojas, R., Murthy, N., Effantin, G., Kajava, A. V., et al. (2007). Functional architecture of the retromer cargo-recognition complex. Nature, 449(7165), 1063–1067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens, U., Erkens, R., & Müller, W. (2004). Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hartmann, S., & Kern-Isberner, G. (Eds.). (2008). Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 5th International Symposium, FoIKS 2008, Pisa, Italy, February 11-15, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 4932). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pasupuleti, J., & Nigam, S. N. (2013). Phenotyping for Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Improvement. In S. K. Panguluri & A. A. Kumar (Eds.), Phenotyping for Plant Breeding: Applications of Phenotyping Methods for Crop Improvement (pp. 129–167). 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

Hale, T. (2016, May 26). See Inside A Hyperloop Pod For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-hyperloop-might-look-inside/. 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. (1984). The Unit Status and Identity Report (UNITREP) System--What It Does and Does Not Measure (No. NSIAD-84-39). 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

Naro, A. (2016). The effects of the structural components of 4-H residential summer programs on the achievement of the essential elements of positive youth development and the acquisition of targeted life skills (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, April 30). Loop Drawbridge to Try Car-Friendly Schedule. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ray-Gallet and Almouzni 2010; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ray-Gallet and Almouzni 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hierro et al. 2007)

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