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

Gregersen, Peter K. 2014. “Genetics. A Genomic Road Map for Complex Human Disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6175): 1087–1088.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suster, Maximiliano L., and Michael Bate. 2002. “Embryonic Assembly of a Central Pattern Generator without Sensory Input.” Nature 416 (6877): 174–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Knauth, L. Paul, Donald M. Burt, and Kenneth H. Wohletz. 2005. “Impact Origin of Sediments at the Opportunity Landing Site on Mars.” Nature 438 (7071): 1123–1128.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakanishi-Matsui, M., Y. W. Zheng, D. J. Sulciner, E. J. Weiss, M. J. Ludeman, and S. R. Coughlin. 2000. “PAR3 Is a Cofactor for PAR4 Activation by Thrombin.” Nature 404 (6778): 609–613.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewe, Philip J., Michael P. O’Driscoll, and Cary L. Cooper. 2010. Coping with Work Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

He, Xiaofei, Xinbo Gao, Yanning Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Zhi-Yong Liu, Baochuan Fu, Fuyuan Hu, and Zhancheng Zhang, eds. 2015. Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering. Big Data and Machine Learning Techniques: 5th International Conference, IScIDE 2015, Suzhou, China, June 14-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Vol. 9243. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Blease, Robert E., and Christopher S. Smith. 2014. “Blast Trauma.” In Front Line Extremity and Orthopaedic Surgery: A Practical Guide, edited by Lawrence B. Bone and Christiaan N. Mamczak, 31–42. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Australian Planner.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “Looped Trajectories Make Quantum Superposition Even Stranger.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/looped-trajectories-make-quantum-superposition-even-stranger/.

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. 2015. Information Technology: Copyright Office Needs To Develop Plans That Address Technical and Organizational Challenges. GAO-15-338. 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

Hasbini, Mohamad Ali. 2017. “The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “Nadal and Federer Steady a Collision Course.” New York Times, September 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gregersen 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gregersen 2014; Suster and Bate 2002).

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

Two authors: (Suster and Bate 2002)
Three authors: (Knauth, Burt, and Wohletz 2005)
4 or more authors: (Nakanishi-Matsui 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