How to format your references using the International Journal of Housing Policy citation style

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

Weeks, E. R. (2012). Materials science. Melting colloidal crystals from the inside out. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 55–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pevzner, P., & Shamir, R. (2009). Computing has changed biology--biology education must catch up. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5940), 541–542.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki, T., Yamamoto, Y., & Koashi, M. (2014). Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature, 509(7501), 475–478.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chao, J.-R., Parganas, E., Boyd, K., Hong, C. Y., Opferman, J. T., & Ihle, J. N. (2008). Hax1-mediated processing of HtrA2 by Parl allows survival of lymphocytes and neurons. Nature, 452(7183), 98–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tissue, B. M. (2013). Basics of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Equilibria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Borchers, H.-J. (2006). Mathematical Implications of Einstein-Weyl Causality (R. N. Sen, Ed.; Vol. 709). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Delina, L. L. (2011). Mitigating Climate Change Via Clean Energy Financing: An Assessment of the Asian Development Bank’s Mitigation Efforts in Southeast Asia. In W. Leal Filho (Ed.), The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change (pp. 51–68). 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 International Journal of Housing Policy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, June 7). Students Develop Straw That Can Test For Date Rape Drugs. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/students-develop-straw-that-can-test-for-date-rape-drugs/

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). Transit Rail: Potential Rail Car Cost-Saving Strategies Exist (GAO-10-730). 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

Dusenberry, W. (2017). Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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, J. (2017, August 4). You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain. New York Times, ED6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weeks, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Pevzner & Shamir, 2009; Weeks, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pevzner & Shamir, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Housing Policy
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Hous. Pol.
ISSN (print)	1461-6718
ISSN (online)	1473-3269
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development