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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Dyson F (2005) Dynamic universe. Nature 435:1033

A journal article with 2 authors

Ransohoff RM, Stevens B (2011) Neuroscience. How many cell types does it take to wire a brain? Science 333:1391–1392

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds AM, Leprêtre L, Bohan DA (2013) Movement patterns of Tenebrio beetles demonstrate empirically that correlated-random-walks have similitude with a Lévy walk. Sci Rep 3:3158

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cederstrom B, Cahn RN, Danielsson M, et al (2000) Focusing hard X-rays with old LPs. Nature 404:951

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nölte J (2005) ICP Emissionsspektrometrie für Praktiker. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Ábrahám E, Bonsangue M, Johnsen EB (2016) Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Augustyn DR (2015) Query Workload Aware Multi-histogram Based on Equi-width Sub-histograms for Selectivity Estimations of Range Queries. In: Kozielski S, Mrozek D, Kasprowski P, et al (eds) Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures: 11th International Conference, BDAS 2015, Ustroń, Poland, May 26-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–59

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

Carpineti A (2015) Long-Tailed Galaxy Amazes Astronomers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/long-tailed-galaxy-amazes-astronomers/. 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 (1974) Government’s Efforts To Standardize Data Elements and Codes for Computer Systems. 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

Lara C (2015) Bullying victimization among adolescent students: A qualitative study. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kolomatsky M (2017) How Much Space for the Money? New York Times RE2

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