How to format your references using the Australian Planner citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Planner. 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	Download the output style file
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

Melton, Lisa. 2005. “Imaging: The Big Picture.” Nature 437 (7059): 775–779.

A journal article with 2 authors

López-Carr, David, and Jessica Marter-Kenyon. 2015. “Human Adaptation: Manage Climate-Induced Resettlement.” Nature 517 (7534): 265–267.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, Daniel G., Jason A. Burdick, and Robert Langer. 2004. “Materials Science. Smart Biomaterials.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5692): 1923–1924.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hulot, F. D., G. Lacroix, F. Lescher-Moutoué, and M. Loreau. 2000. “Functional Diversity Governs Ecosystem Response to Nutrient Enrichment.” Nature 405 (6784): 340–344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi, Yang, Mingxi Liu, and Fang Fang. 2017. Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ahuja, M. R., and S. Mohan Jain, eds. 2015. Genetic Diversity and Erosion in Plants: Indicators and Prevention. Vol. 7. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Halfond, William G. J., and Alessandro Orso. 2007. “Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks.” In Malware Detection, edited by Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha, Douglas Maughan, Dawn Song, and Cliff Wang, 85–109. Advances in Information Security. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Australian Planner.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Man Constructs 3D Printed Concrete Castle.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-constructs-3d-printed-concrete-castle/.

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. 2014. Indian Affairs: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending. GAO-15-121. 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

Morissette, Teresa M. 2009. “Elder Friendliness and Social Participation of Older Adults Living within Age-Segregated Retirement Communities.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Tough Architect of the Mets.” New York Times, March 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Melton 2005; López-Carr and Marter-Kenyon 2015).

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

Two authors: (López-Carr and Marter-Kenyon 2015)
Three authors: (Anderson, Burdick, and Langer 2004)
4 or more authors: (Hulot et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Planner
ISSN (print)	0729-3682
ISSN (online)	2150-6841
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies