How to format your references using the Housing, Theory and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Housing, Theory and Society. 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

Murray, Carl D. 2006. “Planetary Science. Ringing the Changes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5763): 961–962.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer, Paul I., and Matthew J. Smith. 2014. “Earth Systems: Model Human Adaptation to Climate Change.” Nature 512 (7515): 365–366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lazzaro, Brian P., Bonnielin K. Sceurman, and Andrew G. Clark. 2004. “Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in D. Melanogaster Antibacterial Immunity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5665): 1873–1876.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xiu, Xinan, Nyssa L. Puskar, Jai A. P. Shanata, Henry A. Lester, and Dennis A. Dougherty. 2009. “Nicotine Binding to Brain Receptors Requires a Strong Cation-Pi Interaction.” Nature 458 (7237): 534–537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Sutherland, Peter. 2014. Principles of Electrical Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lasjaunias, Pierre. 2006. Surgical Neuroangiography: Clinical and Interventional Aspects in Children. Edited by Karel G. Ter Brugge and Alejandro Berenstein. 2nd ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Xiaochang C., Chongmiao Zhang, Xiaoyan Ma, and Li Luo. 2015. “A Real Case of Water Reuse Through a Water Cycle.” In Water Cycle Management: A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control, edited by Chongmiao Zhang, Xiaoyan Ma, and Li Luo, 75–94. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Housing, Theory and Society.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. “Firefighter Receives World’s Most Extensive Face Transplant.” 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. 2013. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Governmentwide Strategy Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs. GAO-13-529T. Washington, DC: 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

Hatcher, Rishona. 2012. “Guide to Improvisation for Mozart’s Serenade in Bb Major, K. 361, the ‘Gran Partita.’” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Oestreich, James R. 2016. “Among the Dictators and Commandants Are Sopranos and Baritones.” New York Times, October 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Murray 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Murray 2006; Palmer and Smith 2014).

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

Two authors: (Palmer and Smith 2014)
Three authors: (Lazzaro, Sceurman, and Clark 2004)
4 or more authors: (Xiu et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Housing, Theory and Society
Abbreviation	Hous. Theory Soc.
ISSN (print)	1403-6096
ISSN (online)	1651-2278
Scope	Development Sociology and Political Science Urban Studies