How to format your references using the Journal of Land Use Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Land Use Science. 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

Offringa, R. (2006). Cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is more than a numbers game. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5796), 68–69.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henzler-Wildman, K., & Kern, D. (2007). Dynamic personalities of proteins. Nature, 450(7172), 964–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi, C. H., Hiromura, M., & Usheva, A. (2003). Transcription factor IIB acetylates itself to regulate transcription. Nature, 424(6951), 965–969.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chung, W.-H., Hung, S.-I., Hong, H.-S., Hsih, M.-S., Yang, L.-C., Ho, H.-C., Wu, J.-Y., & Chen, Y.-T. (2004). Medical genetics: a marker for Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Nature, 428(6982), 486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hull, B. (2010). Manufacturing Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hagener, M., Hediger, V., & Strohmaier, A. (Eds.). (2016). The State of Post-Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujiwara, H., Araki, Y., Sato, Y., Takakura, M., Nakamura, M., Mizumoto, Y., Horie, A., Kanzaki, H., & Mori, T. (2016). Role of Circulating Blood Cells in Maternal Tissue Remodeling and Embryo-Maternal Cross Talk. In H. Kanzaki (Ed.), Uterine Endometrial Function (pp. 49–60). Springer Japan.

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 Land Use Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, September 21). Burying Beetles: Do Good Fathers Die Young? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/burying-beetle-do-good-fathers-die-young/

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. (2007). Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain (GAO-07-681T). 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

Slaughter, R. A. (2017). Tradition and Progress: California Fire Technology Directors Beliefs and Values [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Lyman, R., & Walsh, M. W. (2013, August 16). A City Borrows So Its Schools Open on Time. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Offringa, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Henzler-Wildman & Kern, 2007; Offringa, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Henzler-Wildman & Kern, 2007)
Three authors: (Choi et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Chung et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Land Use Science
Abbreviation	J. Land Use Sci.
ISSN (print)	1747-423X
ISSN (online)	1747-4248
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development