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

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

Tanabe K. 2011. Paleontology. The feeding habits of ammonites. Science. 331(6013):37–38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lease RO, Ehlers TA. 2013. Incision into the eastern Andean Plateau during Pliocene cooling. Science. 341(6147):774–776.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labidi J, Cartigny P, Moreira M. 2013. Non-chondritic sulphur isotope composition of the terrestrial mantle. Nature. 501(7466):208–211.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Some S, Kim Y, Yoon Y, Yoo H, Lee S, Park Y, Lee H. 2013. High-quality reduced graphene oxide by a dual-function chemical reduction and healing process. Sci Rep. 3:1929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson N, Hall G, Fawcett W. 2011. How to Survive in Anaesthesia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Holder RD, Mitton S, editors. 2012. Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin JM, Altarriba J. 2016. Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: Bilingual Lexical and Attentional Processing. In: Heredia RR, Altarriba J, Cieślicka AB, editors. Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research. New York, NY: Springer; p. 61–98.

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 Sustainable Development.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Cuba Has A Lung Cancer Vaccine, And Now It Could Be Coming To The USA. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cuba-and-us-lung-cancer-vaccine-collaboration/

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. 1982. Ocean Mining Technology Transfer (Best available copy). 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

Cong M. 2015. Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

(mrs M S ) Isabella. 1960. Rosenbach and Books. New York Times.:The New York Times Book ReviewBR15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tanabe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Tanabe 2011; Lease and Ehlers 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lease and Ehlers 2013)
Three or more authors: (Some et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
Abbreviation	Int. J. Urban Sustain. Dev.
ISSN (print)	1946-3138
ISSN (online)	1946-3146
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies