How to format your references using the Journal of Property Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Property Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bynum, W. F. (2001). Nature’s helping hand. Nature, 414(6859), 21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cameron, R., & Schüssler, M. (2015). Solar physics. The crucial role of surface magnetic fields for the solar dynamo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6228), 1333–1335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ofstad, T. A., Zuker, C. S., & Reiser, M. B. (2011). Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature, 474(7350), 204–207.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, J.-Y., Yoo, B.-C., Rojas, M. R., Gomez-Ospina, N., Staehelin, L. A., & Lucas, W. J. (2003). Selective trafficking of non-cell-autonomous proteins mediated by NtNCAPP1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 392–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius, V. (2011). Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hipel, K. W., Fang, L., Cullmann, J., & Bristow, M. (Eds.). (2015). Conflict Resolution in Water Resources and Environmental Management. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Biggs, B. G., & Kiker, M. K. (2007). ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN HARBORS AND COASTAL AREAS. In I. Linkov, G. A. Kiker, & R. J. Wenning (Eds.), Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (pp. 53–77). Springer Netherlands.

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 Property Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, February 27). Watch This Stunning Animation About The Hubble Telescope And The Universe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-this-stunning-animation-about-the-hubble-telescope-and-the-universe/

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. (1954). Study of United States Government Wind Tunnels (B-114825). 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

Watts, K. S. (2008). The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Stellin, S. (2013, December 1). Who Is Watching the Watch Lists? New York Times, SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bynum, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bynum, 2001; Cameron & Schüssler, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cameron & Schüssler, 2015)
Three authors: (Ofstad et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Property Research
Abbreviation	J. Prop. Res.
ISSN (print)	0959-9916
ISSN (online)	1466-4453
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies