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

Zuk, Marlene. 2010. “Evolution. Dance like No One Is Watching, Sing like No One Is Listening?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5983): 1237–1238.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peña, J. L., and M. Konishi. 2001. “Auditory Spatial Receptive Fields Created by Multiplication.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5515): 249–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloch, I., I, T. W. Hansch, and T. Esslinger. 2000. “Measurement of the Spatial Coherence of a Trapped Bose Gas at the Phase Transition.” Nature 403 (6766): 166–170.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Du, Keyong, Stephan Herzig, Rohit N. Kulkarni, and Marc Montminy. 2003. “TRB3: A Tribbles Homolog That Inhibits Akt/PKB Activation by Insulin in Liver.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5625): 1574–1577.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, Malek, Mohamed Lamine Boucenna, and Hadj Batatia. 2015. Ad Hoc Networks Telecommunications and Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Davim, J. Paulo, ed. 2015. Modern Manufacturing Engineering. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fontaine, F., B. Debray, and Olivier Salvi. 2007. “Protection of Hazardous Installations and Critical Infrastructures - Complementarity of Safety and Security Approaches.” In Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security, edited by Igor Linkov, Richard J. Wenning, and Gregory A. Kiker, 65–78. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2015. “Revealed: First Warm-Blooded Fish (And We’ve Been Eating It For Years).” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/revealed-first-warm-blooded-fish-and-we-ve-been-eating-it-years/.

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. 1998. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Guidance Needed to Protect Government’s Interest. NSIAD-98-151. 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

Madapatha, Samira Anupama. 2015. “Energy Efficient Hierarchical Wireless Routing Protocol (EEHW Routing Protocol).” 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

Hu, Winnie. 2017. “Navigating A City Forest: 280 Miles Of Scaffolding.” New York Times, May 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zuk 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zuk 2010; Peña and Konishi 2001).

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

Two authors: (Peña and Konishi 2001)
Three authors: (Bloch, Hansch, and Esslinger 2000)
4 or more authors: (Du et al. 2003)

About the journal

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