How to format your references using the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). 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

Jones, D. A. (2010) Financial pain should focus universities. Nature 465.7294, 32–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galiana, I. and Green, C. (2009) Let the global technology race begin. Nature 462.7273, 570–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wild, G., Gardner, A. and West, S. A. (2009) Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world. Nature 459.7249, 983–86.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nowakowski, T. J., Bhaduri, A., Pollen, A. A., Alvarado, B., Mostajo-Radji, M. A., Di Lullo, E., Haeussler, M., Sandoval-Espinosa, C., Liu, S. J., Velmeshev, D., Ounadjela, J. R., Shuga, J., Wang, X., Lim, D. A., West, J. A., Leyrat, A. A., Kent, W. J. and Kriegstein, A. R. (2017) Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.) 358.6368, 1318–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arden, J. B. and Linford, L. (2008) Brain-Based Therapy with Adults. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Issariyakul, T. (2012) Introduction to Network Simulator NS2. (Hossain, E., ed.) Second Edition. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenzini, J. and Giugni, M. (2016) Long-Term Unemployed Youth in Switzerland: Coping with Exclusion from the Labor Market in a Country with Low Unemployment. In Lahusen, C. and M. Giugni (eds.), Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe: Youth on the Edge. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

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 Urban and Regional Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (16/04/2014) Hungry Snake Picked The Wrong Dinner. 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 (1991) Farmers Home Administration: Half-Billion Dollar ADP Modernization Lacks Adequate Planning and Oversight, No. T-IMTEC-92-2. 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

Dammann, N. M. (2009) Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone, Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2016/6/September) Radwanska Upset in Straight Sets. New York Times: B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jones, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Galiana and Green, 2009; Jones, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Galiana and Green, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nowakowski et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Urban Reg. Res.
ISSN (print)	0309-1317
ISSN (online)	1468-2427
Scope	Development Sociology and Political Science Urban Studies