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

Esposito L (2003) Planetary science. Cassini imaging at Jupiter. Science 299:1529–1530

A journal article with 2 authors

Gasteiger HA, Marković NM (2009) Chemistry. Just a dream--or future reality? Science 324:48–49

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen SB, Tao X, MacKinnon R (2011) Structural basis of PIP2 activation of the classical inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2. Nature 477:495–498

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boussau B, Blanquart S, Necsulea A, et al (2008) Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon. Nature 456:942–945

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estampe D (2014) Supply Chain Performance and Evaluation Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jungmann J, Sagemann B (2011) Financial Crisis in Eastern Europe: Road to Recovery. Gabler, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Good R (2012) Why the Study of Pseudoscience Should Be Included in Nature of Science Studies. In: Khine MS (ed) Advances in Nature of Science Research: Concepts and Methodologies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–106

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

Andrew E (2015) Physicists Demonstrate “Weeping Angel” Effect. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/physicists-demonstrate-weeping-angel-effect/. 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 (1986) ADP Acquisitions: Immigration and Naturalization Service Should Terminate Its Contract and Recompete. 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

Igualada MO (2015) The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Brantley B (2017) An Everyman in Crisis. New York Times C1

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

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