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

Sterner, Thomas. 2015. “Economics: Higher Costs of Climate Change.” Nature 527 (7577): 177–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steinman, Ralph M., and Ira Mellman. 2004. “Immunotherapy: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered No More.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5681): 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Hua, Marco Martina, and Peter Jonas. 2010. “Dendritic Mechanisms Underlying Rapid Synaptic Activation of Fast-Spiking Hippocampal Interneurons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5961): 52–58.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yoo, Chae-Hwa, Ji-Hyun Yeom, Jin-Ju Heo, Eun-Kyung Song, Sang-Il Lee, and Myung-Kwan Han. 2014. “Interferon β Protects against Lethal Endotoxic and Septic Shock through SIRT1 Upregulation.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, J. C. 2017. Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bruno, Isabelle, Florence Jany-Catrice, and Béatrice Touchelay, eds. 2016. The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies. Vol. 13. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Przelaskowski, Artur. 2008. “Computer-Aided Diagnosis: From Image Understanding to Integrated Assistance.” In Information Technologies in Biomedicine, edited by Ewa Pietka and Jacek Kawa, 44–54. Advances in Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Urban Design.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Parasitic Wasps Must Lay Their Eggs in the Right Fly, or Else.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-wasps-must-lay-their-eggs-right-fly-or-else/.

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. 1986. DOD Acquisition: Case Study of the MILSTAR Satellite Communications System. NSIAD-86-45S-15. 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

Shina, Yael Elanit. 2013. “Youth under the Care of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems: A Grant Proposal for Crossover Youth.” 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

Kelly, Kate, and Alexandra Stevenson. 2017. “Soros Fund Plucks Executive From UBS to Lead Investing.” New York Times, January 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sterner 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sterner 2015; Steinman and Mellman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Steinman and Mellman 2004)
Three authors: (Hu, Martina, and Jonas 2010)
4 or more authors: (Yoo 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