How to format your references using the Environment and Planning A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environment and Planning A. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Wiersma D S, 2010, “Physics. Random quantum networks” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327(5971) 1333–1334

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim E, Chan M H W, 2004, “Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase” Nature 427(6971) 225–227

A journal article with 3 authors

Oganov A R, Brodholt J P, Price G D, 2001, “The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle” Nature 411(6840) 934–937

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Falzarano D, de Wit E, Martellaro C, Callison J, Munster V J, Feldmann H, 2013, “Inhibition of novel β coronavirus replication by a combination of interferon-α2b and ribavirin” Scientific reports 3 1686

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karamalidis A K, Dzombak D A, 2010 Surface Complexation Modeling (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Winslett M ed, 2009 Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 21st International Conference, SSDBM 2009 New Orleans, LA, USA, June 2-4, 2009 Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang J, 2009, “Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval”, in Advances in Information Retrieval: 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings Eds M Boughanem, C Berrut, J Mothe, and C Soule-Dupuy Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), pp 4–16

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 Environment and Planning A.

Blog post

Andrew D, 2017, “A 10-Foot Great White Shark Jumped Right Into A Fisherman’s Boat In Australia” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-10foot-great-white-shark-jumped-right-into-a-fishermans-boat-in-australia/

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, “Land Management Systems: Actions Needed in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Development”, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Smith G S, 2008 The relationship between legislative implementations and educator readiness in inclusive educational environments, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

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

Crow K, 2001, “Neighbors Say an S.R.O. Is O.K., Just Make It Better” New York Times 145

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wiersma, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Chan, 2004; Wiersma, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Chan, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Falzarano et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environment and Planning A
Abbreviation	Environ. Plan. A
ISSN (print)	0308-518X
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development