How to format your references using the Computers, Environment and Urban Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 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

Wollman, R. (2014). Development. Counting the ways to decode dynamic signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1326–1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vargas-Rodriguez, O., & Musier-Forsyth, K. (2014). Structural biology: wobble puts RNA on target. Nature, 510(7506), 480–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tseng, C.-H., Gobell, J. L., & Sperling, G. (2004). Long-lasting sensitization to a given colour after visual search. Nature, 428(6983), 657–660.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Benz, A., Krall, M., Schwarz, S., Dietze, D., Detz, H., Andrews, A. M., Schrenk, W., Strasser, G., & Unterrainer, K. (2014). Resonant metamaterial detectors based on THz quantum-cascade structures. Scientific Reports, 4, 4269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seagal, Z. M., & Surnina, O. M. (2016). Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Napier, S. (Ed.). (2011). Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments (Vol. 111). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rusek, R., & Colomer-Llinas, J. (2016). Public Facilities Driven by Service Demand for Space. In J. Charytonowicz (Ed.), Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA (pp. 39–50). Springer International Publishing.

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 Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, June 8). Here’s What Drugs Europeans Are Getting High On This Year. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/here-s-drugs-europeans-getting-high-year/

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. (1973). Opportunities for Improving Management of Local Telephone Service (B-146864). 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

Prendergast, C. A. (2017). Nontraditional online students perceptions on student success conditions [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

Barron, J. (2016, October 6). Museum to Give Lady Liberty’s Crowds More to Do Than Snap Selfies. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wollman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Vargas-Rodriguez & Musier-Forsyth, 2014; Wollman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vargas-Rodriguez & Musier-Forsyth, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Benz et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Abbreviation	Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
ISSN (print)	0198-9715
Scope	General Environmental Science Ecological Modelling Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies