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

Brownlee, M. (2001). Biochemistry and molecular cell biology of diabetic complications. Nature, 414(6865), 813–820.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bjerrum, C. J., & Canfield, D. E. (2002). Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides. Nature, 417(6885), 159–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Legramandi, M. A., Schepens, B., & Cavagna, G. A. (2013). Running humans attain optimal elastic bounce in their teens. Scientific Reports, 3, 1310.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hungate, B. A., Stiling, P. D., Dijkstra, P., Johnson, D. W., Ketterer, M. E., Hymus, G. J., Hinkle, C. R., & Drake, B. G. (2004). CO2 elicits long-term decline in nitrogen fixation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn, J. F. (2013). Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Dietz, H. P. (2008). Atlas of Pelvic Floor Ultrasound (L. P. J. Hoyte & A. B. Steensma, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lőw, P., Molnár, K., & Kriska, G. (2016). Dissection of a Snail (Helix pomatia). In K. Molnár & G. Kriska (Eds.), Atlas of Animal Anatomy and Histology (pp. 49–77). 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

Hamilton, K. (2017, May 22). Unfolding The Secrets Of Ladybird Wings. 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. (2015). Broadband: Intended Outcomes and Effectiveness of Efforts to Address Adoption Barriers Are Unclear (GAO-15-473). 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

Olson, B. A. (2012). Problem Management: A System Engineering Management Framework [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Neuman, W. (2014, May 26). Peace-Talk Critic Takes Lead in Colombia Presidential Vote. New York Times, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brownlee, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bjerrum & Canfield, 2002; Brownlee, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bjerrum & Canfield, 2002)
Three authors: (Legramandi et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hungate et al., 2004)

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