How to format your references using the Housing Policy Debate citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Housing Policy Debate. 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

Miller, C. (2006). Biophysics. Lonely voltage sensor seeks protons for permeation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 534–535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liotta, L. A., & Kohn, E. C. (2001). The microenvironment of the tumour-host interface. Nature, 411(6835), 375–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sackmann, E. K., Fulton, A. L., & Beebe, D. J. (2014). The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research. Nature, 507(7491), 181–189.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pandit, P. S., Bunn, D. A., Pande, S. A., & Aly, S. S. (2013). Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India. Scientific Reports, 3, 2175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent, O. (2010). IP Telephony. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Keller, C., Wiberg, M., Ågerfalk, P. J., & Eriksson Lundström, J. S. Z. (Eds.). (2012). Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 124). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Derkach, V., Hassi, S., & de Snoo, H. (2007). Asymptotic Expansions of Generalized Nevanlinna Functions and their Spectral Properties. In K.-H. Förster, P. Jonas, H. Langer, & C. Trunk (Eds.), Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces (pp. 51–88). Birkhäuser.

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 Housing Policy Debate.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 13). Tasty Treat: How We Showed Fat To Be The Sixth Taste. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tasty-treat-how-we-showed-fat-be-sixth-taste/

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. (2005). Transportation Security Administration: More Clarity on the Authority of Federal Security Directors Is Needed (GAO-05-935). 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

Lopez, V. (2015). The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: A policy analysis [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

Raday, S. (2006, June 18). Diary of a Soldier’s Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don’t Mix. New York Times, ST7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Liotta & Kohn, 2001; Miller, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Liotta & Kohn, 2001)
Three authors: (Sackmann et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Pandit et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Housing Policy Debate
Abbreviation	Hous. Policy Debate
ISSN (print)	1051-1482
ISSN (online)	2152-050X
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Urban Studies