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

Moran MA. 2015. The global ocean microbiome. Science. 350(6266):aac8455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loh KM, Lim B. 2015. Stem cells: Equilibrium established. Nature. 521(7552):299–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bass AH, Gilland EH, Baker R. 2008. Evolutionary origins for social vocalization in a vertebrate hindbrain-spinal compartment. Science. 321(5887):417–421.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Dupuy AJ, Akagi K, Largaespada DA, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA. 2005. Mammalian mutagenesis using a highly mobile somatic Sleeping Beauty transposon system. Nature. 436(7048):221–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saguet P. 2013. Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tiropanis T, Vakali A, Sartori L, Burnap P, editors. 2015. Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Beierle C, Eichhorn C, Kern-Isberner G. 2016. Skeptical Inference Based on C-Representations and Its Characterization as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem. In: Gyssens M, Simari G, editors. Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 9th International Symposium, FoIKS 2016, Linz, Austria, March 7-11, 2016 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 65–82.

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

Fang J. 2015. Pigeons Wearing Eye Patches Must Learn New Routes Home. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pigeons-wearing-eye-patches-find-new-routes-home/

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. 1993. Army Logistics: Better Approach Needed to Identify Systemic Causes of Problem Parts. 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

Quiroz CA. 2012. A community risk assessment of 90032 [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

Hui M. 2012. In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times.:A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moran 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Loh and Lim 2015; Moran 2015).

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

Two authors: (Loh and Lim 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dupuy et al. 2005)

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