How to format your references using the Journal of Housing Economics citation style

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

Connor, C.E., 2002. Neuroscience. Reconstructing a 3D world. Science 298, 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beg, A.A., Scheiffele, P., 2006. Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science 311, 962–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grottoli, A.G., Rodrigues, L.J., Palardy, J.E., 2006. Heterotrophic plasticity and resilience in bleached corals. Nature 440, 1186–1189.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nguyen, T., Sutton, A.D., Brynda, M., Fettinger, J.C., Long, G.J., Power, P.P., 2005. Synthesis of a stable compound with fivefold bonding between two chromium(I) centers. Science 310, 844–847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samonas, M., 2015. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Normey-Rico, J.E., 2007. Control of Dead-time Processes, Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Krausgrill, B., Halbach, M., Hescheler, J., 2014. Cardiac Cell Replacement Therapy With Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes, in: Hescheler, J., Hofer, E. (Eds.), Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–82.

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 Journal of Housing Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. After 20 Years, Buckyballs Have Been Confirmed In Space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Claims of Civilian Employees Who Were Overpaid per Diem while Attending Training Schools (No. B-190014). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Amini, B., 2015. Linear Matrix Inequality Method for Periodic Systems (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

Anderson, J., 2017. The Documentary Left Looks to the Right. New York Times AR15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Connor, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Beg and Scheiffele, 2006; Connor, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Beg and Scheiffele, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nguyen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Housing Economics
Abbreviation	J. Hous. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1051-1377
Scope	Economics and Econometrics