How to format your references using the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 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

Türler, A. (2015). Nuclear chemistry: Lawrencium bridges a knowledge gap. Nature, 520(7546), 166–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gfeller, A., & Farmer, E. E. (2004). Keeping the leaves green above us. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fang, Y., Seong, N.-H., & Dlott, D. D. (2008). Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5887), 388–392.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Q. J., Xu, Z. F., Kress, W. J., Xia, Y. M., Zhang, L., Deng, X. B., et al. (2001). Pollination: flexible style that encourages outcrossing. Nature, 410(6827), 432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sericola, B. (2013). Markov Chains. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brooks, A. L., Brahnam, S., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2014). Technologies of Inclusive Well-Being: Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy (Vol. 536). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Graepel, R., Bodkin, J. V., & Brain, S. D. (2010). Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and the Sensory Neurovascular Component. In H. Sauer, A. M. Shah, & F. R. M. Laurindo (Eds.), Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders (pp. 87–107). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 6). New Anti-Prion Compound Provides New Hope For Treating Brain-Wasting Disease. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-anti-prions-compound-provide-new-hope-treating-brain-wasting-disease/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1973). Educational Laboratory and Research and Development Center Programs Need To Be Strengthened (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Walther, R. L. (2017). Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 20). Syndergaard Stumbles en Route to a Potential Wild-Card Start. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Türler 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gfeller and Farmer 2004; Türler 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gfeller and Farmer 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Abbreviation	J. Housing Built Environ.
ISSN (print)	1566-4910
ISSN (online)	1573-7772
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies