How to format your references using the Habitat International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Habitat International. 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

Moore, P. (2003). Playing with the pieces. Nature, 426(6967), 725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lau, H., & Maniscalco, B. (2010). Neuroscience. Should confidence be trusted? Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5998), 1478–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer, C., Julian, S. R., & Lonzarich, G. G. (2001). Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature, 414(6862), 427–430.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boillée, S., Yamanaka, K., Lobsiger, C. S., Copeland, N. G., Jenkins, N. A., Kassiotis, G., Kollias, G., & Cleveland, D. W. (2006). Onset and progression in inherited ALS determined by motor neurons and microglia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5778), 1389–1392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferrari, M. L., Damo, U. M., Turan, A., & Sánchez, D. (2017). Hybrid Systems Based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ryżko, D., Rybiński, H., Gawrysiak, P., & Kryszkiewicz, M. (Eds.). (2011). Emerging Intelligent Technologies in Industry (Vol. 369). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McCluggage, W. G. (2014). Other Neoplasms of the Cervix. In J. Tidy & J. H. F. Smith (Eds.), Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix (pp. 113–133). Springer.

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 Habitat International.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 12). American Public Can Now Nominate New National Marine Sanctuaries. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2010). Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program (GAO-11-21). 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

Hester, E. T. (2008). Impact of geomorphic structures on hyporheic exchange, temperature, and ecological processes in streams [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Williams, J. (2017, February 10). The Left Bank. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lau & Maniscalco, 2010; Moore, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lau & Maniscalco, 2010)
Three authors: (Pfleiderer et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Boillée et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Habitat International
Abbreviation	Habitat Int.
ISSN (print)	0197-3975
Scope	Urban Studies