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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Mel, Bartlett W. 2002. “Neurobiology. What the Synapse Tells the Neuron.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5561): 1845–1846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, and Johanna Schmitt. 2006. “Genetic Mechanisms and Evolutionary Significance of Natural Variation in Arabidopsis.” Nature 441 (7096): 947–952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, Zhiyong, Nicholas A. Kotov, and Michael Giersig. 2002. “Spontaneous Organization of Single CdTe Nanoparticles into Luminescent Nanowires.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5579): 237–240.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ohta, Kenji, Suzue Onoda, Kei Hirose, Ryosuke Sinmyo, Katsuya Shimizu, Nagayoshi Sata, Yasuo Ohishi, and Akira Yasuhara. 2008. “The Electrical Conductivity of Post-Perovskite in Earth’s D’’ Layer.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5872): 89–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, Rory A. 2012. Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Surface Modification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Satchell, Stephen, ed. 2016. Derivatives and Hedge Funds. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Sebbah, Samir, Abdeslem Boukhtouta, Jean Berger, and Ahmed Ghanmi. 2013. “Military Logistics Planning in Humanitarian Relief Operations.” In Humanitarian and Relief Logistics: Research Issues, Case Studies and Future Trends, edited by Vasileios Zeimpekis, Soumia Ichoua, and Ioannis Minis, 77–110. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. 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 Australian Planner.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “First ‘Super Moon’ Of The Year Will Be Visible July 12.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 12. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-“super-moon”-year-will-be-visible-july-12/.

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. 1996. USDA Telecommunications: More Effort Needed to Address Telephone Abuse and Fraud. AIMD-96-59. 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

Sevilla, Alexander David. 2014. “The Moderating Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Emotional Intelligence and Extraversion on Career Success.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

Vecsey, George. 2009. “Even the Reliable Must Face the Inevitable.” New York Times, December 20, 2009.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mel 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mel 2002; Mitchell-Olds and Schmitt 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mitchell-Olds and Schmitt 2006)
Three authors: (Tang, Kotov, and Giersig 2002)
4 or more authors: (Ohta et al. 2008)

About the journal

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