How to format your references using the Future Cities and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Cities and Environment. 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

Marx V (2013) Tracking metastasis and tricking cancer. Nature 494:133–136

A journal article with 2 authors

Kutateladze T, Overduin M (2001) Structural mechanism of endosome docking by the FYVE domain. Science 291:1793–1796

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo M, Fee MS, Katz LC (2003) Encoding pheromonal signals in the accessory olfactory bulb of behaving mice. Science 299:1196–1201

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang Y-N, Hou Y-Y, Sun M-Z, et al (2014) Behavioural screening of zebrafish using neuroactive traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and biological targets. Sci Rep 4:5311

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callard F, Sartorius N, Arboleda-Flórez J, et al (2012) Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Barman NK (2016) Coastal Morphodynamics: Integrated Spatial Modeling on the Deltaic Balasore Coast, India. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Macrander A (2015) Spatial (In)Justice. In: Pritchard RMO, Klumpp M, Teichler U (eds) Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: Can the Challenges be Reconciled? SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 71–90

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 Future Cities and Environment.

Blog post

Evans K (2017) Distinct Shapes Of Ancient Skulls Indicates Multiple Migrations Into Early Americas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/distinct-shapes-of-ancient-skulls-indicates-multiple-migrations-into-early-americas/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Conway AH (2014) Signs and symptoms of moral injury in female vietnam veterans: A qualitative examination of the nvvrs. 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

McNAMARA J (2017) Swift Beyond Satire. New York Times BR20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Cities and Environment
Abbreviation	Futur. Cities Environ.
ISSN (online)	2363-9075
Scope