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

Cleland, A. N. (2015). PHYSICS. Pumping up the quantum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6258), 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Roy, P., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2011). A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid. Nature, 473(7348), 510–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann, D., Hufnagel, L., & Geisel, T. (2006). The scaling laws of human travel. Nature, 439(7075), 462–465.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vernazza, P., Binzel, R. P., Thomas, C. A., DeMeo, F. E., Bus, S. J., Rivkin, A. S., & Tokunaga, A. T. (2008). Compositional differences between meteorites and near-Earth asteroids. Nature, 454(7206), 858–860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, D. H. (2013). Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Müller, M. (Ed.). (2016). Clinical Pharmacology: Current Topics and Case Studies (2nd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Guan, J., Yao, S., Xu, C., & Zhang, H. (2014). Design and Implementation of Network User Behaviors Analysis Based on Hadoop for Big Data. In L. Batten, G. Li, W. Niu, & M. Warren (Eds.), Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 5th International Conference, ATIS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 26-28, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 44–55). 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 Land Use Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 14). Brains, Genes And Chemical Imbalances – How Explanations Of Mental Illness Affect Stigma. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-genes-and-chemical-imbalances-–-how-explanations-mental-illness-affect-stigma/

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. (1995). School Facilities: Accessibility for the Disabled Still an Issue (HEHS-96-73). 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

Briseno, A. R. (2015). Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, March 9). The Listings; Film Series. New York Times, C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cleland, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cleland, 2015; Van Roy & Briggs, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Van Roy & Briggs, 2011)
Three authors: (Brockmann et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Vernazza et al., 2008)

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