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

Bohannon, J. (2007). Science careers. From greener production to carbon trading: sustainable energy careers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma, A., & Hartwig, J. F. (2015). Metal-catalysed azidation of tertiary C-H bonds suitable for late-stage functionalization. Nature, 517(7536), 600–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

Attardo, A., Fitzgerald, J. E., & Schnitzer, M. J. (2015). Impermanence of dendritic spines in live adult CA1 hippocampus. Nature, 523(7562), 592–596.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, Y., Zhang, X., Pan, H., Deng, W., Zhang, X., Zhang, X., & Jie, J. (2013). In-situ device integration of large-area patterned organic nanowire arrays for high-performance optical sensors. Scientific Reports, 3, 3248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klugman, S. A., Panjer, H. H., & Willmot, G. E. (2013). Loss Models: Further Topics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beauchamp, J. W. (Ed.). (2007). Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: The Sound of Music. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Haveman, M., & Vochteloo, J. (2016). Huawei: A Case Study on a Telecom Giant on the Rise. In R. T. Segers (Ed.), Multinational Management: A Casebook on Asia’s Global Market Leaders (pp. 75–94). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 12). Inside The Colorful World Of Animal Vision. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/inside-colorful-world-animal-vision/

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. (2009). Job Corps: Better Targeted Career Training and Improved Preenrollment Information Could Enhance Female Residential Student Recruitment and Retention (GAO-09-470). 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

Kratovac, S. (2012). Developmental alterations in inhibitory neurotransmission in the Fragile X Syndrome mouse basolateral amygdala [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Baker, L. (2006, October 27). High Mountain Hiking With a Golden Reward. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2007; Sharma & Hartwig, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sharma & Hartwig, 2015)
Three authors: (Attardo et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Wu et al., 2013)

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