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

Pratt, David W. 2002. “Molecular Dynamics. Biomolecules See the Light.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5577): 2347–2348.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkins, J. F., and R. F. Gesteland. 2001. “MRNA Readout at 40.” Nature 414 (6865): 693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoemaker, Hans E., Daniel Mink, and Marcel G. Wubbolts. 2003. “Dispelling the Myths--Biocatalysis in Industrial Synthesis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5613): 1694–1697.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hanna, Jacob, Krishanu Saha, Bernardo Pando, Jeroen van Zon, Christopher J. Lengner, Menno P. Creyghton, Alexander van Oudenaarden, and Rudolf Jaenisch. 2009. “Direct Cell Reprogramming Is a Stochastic Process Amenable to Acceleration.” Nature 462 (7273): 595–601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coombs, W. Timothy, and Sherry J. Holladay. 2011. Managing Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Langor, David W., and Jon Sweeney, eds. 2009. Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Invertebrates and Fungi on Terrestrial Ecosystems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuenca, Manuel Álvarez, and Maryam Reza. 2013. “CUBEN, A Novel Bioreactor for the Removal of Nutrients.” In Economic Sustainability and Environmental Protection in Mediterranean Countries through Clean Manufacturing Methods, edited by José Coca-Prados and Gemma Gutiérrez-Cervelló, 63–92. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2016. “Penguins Make Full Circumpolar Migration To Keep Population United.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/penguins-make-full-circumpolar-migration-to-keep-population-united/.

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. 2012. Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Challenges in Fully Realizing Benefits of Satellite Acquisition Improvements. GAO-12-563T. 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

Lieberman, Viridiana. 2012. “One Yard Shy of Empowerment: Cinematic Portrayals of Female Athletes.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Schwartz, John. 2017. “Where Do All the Disgraced C.E.O.s Go?” New York Times, October 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pratt 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Pratt 2002; Atkins and Gesteland 2001).

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

Two authors: (Atkins and Gesteland 2001)
Three authors: (Schoemaker, Mink, and Wubbolts 2003)
4 or more authors: (Hanna 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