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

Ballschmiter, Karlheinz. 2002. “Atmospheric Chemistry. A Marine Source for Alkyl Nitrates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5584): 1127–1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, Liyan, and Baowen Li. 2014. “Low Thermal Conductivity in Ultrathin Carbon Nanotube (2, 1).” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 4917.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gasparini, Zulma, Diego Pol, and Luis A. Spalletti. 2006. “An Unusual Marine Crocodyliform from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary of Patagonia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5757): 70–73.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stockmann, Christian, Andrew Doedens, Alexander Weidemann, Na Zhang, Norihiko Takeda, Joshua I. Greenberg, David A. Cheresh, and Randall S. Johnson. 2008. “Deletion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Myeloid Cells Accelerates Tumorigenesis.” Nature 456 (7223): 814–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, Gerald J., and Necip Doganaksoy. 2011. A Career in Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Luck, Michael, and Lin Padgham, eds. 2008. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: 8th International Workshop, AOSE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 4951. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Berg, Sören, Tomas Nyberg, and Tomas Kubart. 2008. “Modelling of Reactive Sputtering Processes.” In Reactive Sputter Deposition, edited by Diederik Depla and Stijn Mahieu, 131–152. Springer Series in Materials Science. 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

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Jupiter Was A Wrecking Ball That Smashed Through Early Solar System.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-jupiter-was-wrecking-ball-smashed-through-baby-super-earths/.

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. 1997. NASA Procurement: Contract Management Oversight. NSIAD-97-114R. 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

John, Susan P. 2017. “Drying without Dying: The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis Polypodioides.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Longman, Jeré. 2015. “A Description as Enigmatic as How to Escape a Slump.” New York Times, December 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ballschmiter 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ballschmiter 2002; Zhu and Li 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Li 2014)
Three authors: (Gasparini, Pol, and Spalletti 2006)
4 or more authors: (Stockmann et al. 2008)

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