How to format your references using the International Journal of Urban Sciences citation style

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

Stafford-Smith, M. (2014). UN sustainability goals need quantified targets. Nature, 513(7518), 281.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ransohoff, R. M., & Cardona, A. E. (2010). The myeloid cells of the central nervous system parenchyma. Nature, 468(7321), 253–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lowes, M. A., Bowcock, A. M., & Krueger, J. G. (2007). Pathogenesis and therapy of psoriasis. Nature, 445(7130), 866–873.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chendrimada, T. P., Gregory, R. I., Kumaraswamy, E., Norman, J., Cooch, N., Nishikura, K., & Shiekhattar, R. (2005). TRBP recruits the Dicer complex to Ago2 for microRNA processing and gene silencing. Nature, 436(7051), 740–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazemi, G. A., Lehr, J. H., & Perrochet, P. (2006). Groundwater Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chatzimisios, P., Verikoukis, C., Santamaría, I., Laddomada, M., & Hoffmann, O. (Eds.). (2010). Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems: Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 45). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Petzoldt, A., Bulygin, S., & Buchmann, J. (2010). CyclicRainbow – A Multivariate Signature Scheme with a Partially Cyclic Public Key. In G. Gong & K. C. Gupta (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 33–48). 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 Urban Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 5). How Cute Things Hijack Our Brains And Drive Behaviour. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-cute-things-hijack-our-brains-and-drive-behaviour/

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. (1998). Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA’s Modernization Program (T-RCED/AIMD-98-93). 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

Darnell, C. (2017). Sharecropping in Higher Education: Case Study of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University Joint College of Engineering [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Paulson, M. (2017, August 29). How ‘Great Comet’ Burned Out. 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 (Stafford-Smith, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ransohoff & Cardona, 2010; Stafford-Smith, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ransohoff & Cardona, 2010)
Three authors: (Lowes et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Chendrimada et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Urban Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Urban Sci.
ISSN (print)	1226-5934
ISSN (online)	2161-6779
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies