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

Moses, M., 2009. Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb. Nature 457, 660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lohmann, U., Lesins, G., 2002. Stronger constraints on the anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect. Science 298, 1012–1015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford, R.A., Bradfield, K.S., Richards, S.J., 2007. Ecology: global warming and amphibian losses. Nature 447, E3-4; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bond, G., Kromer, B., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Evans, M.N., Showers, W., Hoffmann, S., Lotti-Bond, R., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G., 2001. Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene. Science 294, 2130–2136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney, S., Francis, C., 2009. Honesty Sells. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hawes, J.M., Glisan, G.B. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of the 1987 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Aboul-Hosn, K., 2006. An Axiomatization of Arrays for Kleene Algebra with Tests, in: Schmidt, R.A. (Ed.), Relations and Kleene Algebra in Computer Science: 9th International Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science and 4th International Workshop on Applications of Kleene Algebra, RelMiCS/AKA 2006, Manchester, UK, August 29–September 2, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 63–77.

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

Carpineti, A., 2015. Ion Engine Breakthrough Could Take Us To Mars At A Fraction Of The Fuel [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ion-engine-breakthrough-could-take-us-mars-fraction-fuel/ (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, 2006. Social Security Numbers: Internet Resellers Provide Few Full SSNs, but Congress Should Consider Enacting Standards for Truncating SSNs (No. GAO-06-495). 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

Reddy, G.S., 2017. Modulo Multipliers with Adaptive Delay for a High Dynamic Range Residue Number System Using Booth Encoding (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, J., 2004. HOME FRONT/Erin St.; Trading Boardroom for a Camper’s Bunk. New York Times 101.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moses, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lohmann and Lesins, 2002; Moses, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lohmann and Lesins, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bond 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