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

Schiebinger, L. (2014). Scientific research must take gender into account. Nature, 507(7490), 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wrachtrup, J., & Finkler, A. (2014). Applied physics: Hybrid sensors ring the changes. Nature, 512(7515), 380–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

López, C. A., de Vries, A. H., & Marrink, S. J. (2013). Computational microscopy of cyclodextrin mediated cholesterol extraction from lipid model membranes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2071.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cen, C., Thiel, S., Mannhart, J., & Levy, J. (2009). Oxide nanoelectronics on demand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5917), 1026–1030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kraehmer, H., & Baur, P. (2013). Weed Anatomy. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mizio, R. D., & Scaglione, M. (Eds.). (2007). Ileo meccanico dell’intestino tenue: Aspetti TC e correlazioni eco-radiografiche. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, P.-C., & Kim, Y.-C. (2016). The Determinants of Strategy Formulation and Change in Foreign Subsidiaries and Their Functional Units. In Y.-C. Kim (Ed.), US Firms’ Business Competence in the Taiwanese IT Industry (pp. 135–181). 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

Carpineti, A. (2015, November 10). Pluto’s Surface Might Be Resting On An Ammonia-Water Slurry. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-s-surface-might-be-resting-ammonia-water-slurry/

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). Telecommunications: Long-Term Strategic Vision Would Help Ensure Targeting of E-rate Funds to Highest-Priority Uses (GAO-09-253). 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

Manalo, J. B. (2017). Ascend Physical Therapy: A Private Practice Clinic for the Next Level [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, March 28). The Rise of Surreality TV. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiebinger, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Schiebinger, 2014; Wrachtrup & Finkler, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wrachtrup & Finkler, 2014)
Three authors: (López et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Cen et al., 2009)

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