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

Smil, V. (2000). Horse power. Nature, 405(6783), 125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freedman, D. J., & Assad, J. A. (2006). Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature, 443(7107), 85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy, C. O., Heiple, K. G., & Meindl, R. S. (2001). Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature, 410(6826), 325–326.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Glenner, H., Thomsen, P. F., Hebsgaard, M. B., Sørensen, M. V., & Willerslev, E. (2006). Evolution. The origin of insects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5807), 1883–1884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, K. (2008). The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Hamilton, S. C. (2012). Geometric Control of Patterned Linear Systems. (M. E. Broucke, Ed.) (Vol. 428). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lanning, K., Montgomery, S. A., Bright, J., Broming, L., Hudelson, M., Pauletti, R. E., et al. (2010). Lives Through Film: 49 UP and the UP Series as a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Change. In M. B. Gregerson (Ed.), The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching (pp. 77–88). New York, NY: 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 Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, July 3). Single-Celled Organism Evolves Sophisticated Eye. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/single-celled-organism-evolves-sophisticated-eye/. 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. (2005). Telecommunications: Application of the Antideficiency Act and Other Fiscal Controls to FCC’s E-Rate Program (No. GAO-05-546T). 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

Yi, Z. (2009). Dynamics of bio-membranes investigated by neutron spin echo: Effects of phospholipid conformations and presence of lidocaine (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, December 20). Consequences in a Fiscal Plan. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Freedman and Assad 2006; Smil 2000).

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

Two authors: (Freedman and Assad 2006)
Three or more authors: (Glenner et al. 2006)

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