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

Dennis, C., 2002. Baiting plan to remove fox threat to Tasmanian wildlife. Nature 416, 357.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chittka, L., Schürkens, S., 2001. Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature 411, 653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghimire, A., Shafran, E., Gerton, J.M., 2014. Using a sharp metal tip to control the polarization and direction of emission from a quantum dot. Sci. Rep. 4, 6456.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Khan, A.A., Bose, C., Yam, L.S., Soloski, M.J., Rupp, F., 2001. Physiological regulation of the immunological synapse by agrin. Science 292, 1681–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Swatton, P.J., 2010. Principles of Flight for Pilots. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pantanowitz, L., 2012. Cytopathology of Infectious Diseases, 1st ed, Essentials in Cytopathology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kathiresan, R., Koger, C.H., Reddy, K.N., 2006. ALLELOPATHY FOR WEED CONTROL IN AQUATIC AND WETLAND SYSTEMS, in: INDERJIT, Mukerji, K.G. (Eds.), Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases, Disease Management of Fruits and Vegetables. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 103–122.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Ant-Nest Beetles Reveal Evolution In Action [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ant-nest-beetles-reveal-evolution-action/ (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, 2016. West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts (No. GAO-17-23). 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

Lefebvre, K., 2017. Racial Prejudice, Individualism, and Political Identity: Understanding the Forty-Year Trend of Anti-Welfare Spending Preferences (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., 2017. Conforto Set For Surgery; Mets Drop 2. New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennis, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chittka and Schürkens, 2001; Dennis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chittka and Schürkens, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Khan et al., 2001)

About the journal

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