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

Storb, R. (2012). Edward Donnall Thomas (1920-2012). Nature, 491(7424), 334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paterson, W. S., & Reeh, N. (2001). Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years. Nature, 414(6859), 60–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Galliard, J.-F., Clobert, J., & Ferrière, R. (2004). Physical performance and Darwinian fitness in lizards. Nature, 432(7016), 502–505.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Estève, J., Gross, C., Weller, A., Giovanazzi, S., & Oberthaler, M. K. (2008). Squeezing and entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature, 455(7217), 1216–1219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E., Ellis, R., & S. Pujar, N. (2014). Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ehrlenspiel, K. (2007). Cost-Efficient Design (A. Kiewert, U. Lindemann, & M. S. Hundal, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miseres, V. (2015). “The Personal is Political.” In L. Gómez, A. Horno-Delgado, M. K. Long, & N. Silleras-Fernández (Eds.), Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures (pp. 57–79). SensePublishers.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, February 11). New Fungal Find Suggests Dinosaurs Did Drugs Too. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-did-drugs-fungal-find-suggests/

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. (1995). Federal Research: Information on Fees for Selected Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (RCED-96-31FS). 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

Horaist, D. W. (2015). Estimating Seed Bank Responses to Changing Environmental Conditions in the Louisiana Coastal Zone [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2016, December 31). Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Storb, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Paterson & Reeh, 2001; Storb, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Paterson & Reeh, 2001)
Three authors: (Le Galliard et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Estève et al., 2008)

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