How to format your references using the Journal of Urban Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Urban Design. 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

Müller-Wille, Staffan. 2007. “Plant Taxonomy: The Love of Plants.” Nature 446 (7133): 268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peebles, P. James E., and William G. Unruh. 2008. “Obituary: John Wheeler (1911-2008).” Nature 453 (7191): 50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erol, Volkan, Fatih Ozaydin, and Azmi Ali Altintas. 2014. “Analysis of Entanglement Measures and LOCC Maximized Quantum Fisher Information of General Two Qubit Systems.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5422.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lu, Chengliang, Ni Hu, Ming Yang, Shuangcheng Xia, Haowen Wang, Junfeng Wang, Zhengcai Xia, and Jun-Ming Liu. 2014. “High Magnetic Field Phase Diagram in Electron-Doped Manganites La(0.4)Ca(0.6)Mn(1-y)Cr(y)O3.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 4902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimble, Michael J. 2006. Robust Industrial Control Systems. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Raggi, Emilio. 2010. Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Edited by Keir Thomas, Trevor Parsons, Andy Channelle, and Sander van Vugt. Fifth Edition. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Faden, Lisa Y. 2015. “Globalization and History Education: The United States and Canada.” In Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture, edited by Joseph Zajda, 51–65. Dordrecht: 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 Urban Design.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Microbes Turn Pee Into Electricity.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1996. CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum. NSIAD-97-40R. Washington, DC: 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

Gilmore, Kathy D. 2010. “With Their Heads in the Lion’s Mouth: Exploring the Novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison through Social Contract Theory.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Paulson, Michael. 2017. “Trump Twitter Quarrel With Michael Moore.” New York Times, October 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Müller-Wille 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Müller-Wille 2007; Peebles and Unruh 2008).

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

Two authors: (Peebles and Unruh 2008)
Three authors: (Erol, Ozaydin, and Altintas 2014)
4 or more authors: (Lu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urban Design
Abbreviation	J. Urban Des.
ISSN (print)	1357-4809
ISSN (online)	1469-9664
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies