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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Davidson, Amy L. 2002. “Structural Biology. Not Just Another ABC Transporter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5570): 1038–1040.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cowan, C. A., and M. Henkemeyer. 2001. “The SH2/SH3 Adaptor Grb4 Transduces B-Ephrin Reverse Signals.” Nature 413 (6852): 174–179.
A journal article with 3 authors
Bence, N. F., R. M. Sampat, and R. R. Kopito. 2001. “Impairment of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System by Protein Aggregation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5521): 1552–1555.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Longo, E., L. S. Cavalcante, D. P. Volanti, A. F. Gouveia, V. M. Longo, J. A. Varela, M. O. Orlandi, and J. Andrés. 2013. “Direct in Situ Observation of the Electron-Driven Synthesis of Ag Filaments on α-Ag2WO4 Crystals.” Scientific Reports 3: 1676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Brown, Sarah R., Walter M. Gregory, Chris Twelves, and Julia Brown. 2014. A Practical Guide to Designing Phase II Trials in Oncology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Lovrek, Ignac, Robert J. Howlett, and Lakhmi C. Jain, eds. 2008. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 5177. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Wolverton, Steve, Andrew Barker, and Jonathan Dombrosky. 2016. “Paleoethnobiology.” In Introduction to Ethnobiology, edited by Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, 25–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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
Hamilton, Kristy. 2014. “Bizarre Human Brain With No Wrinkles Discovered.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/lost-and-found-smooth-human-brain/.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Electric Power Industry. AIMD-99-114. 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
Grosso, Tina. 2015. “Exploring How Older Adults Who Qualify for the Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (AADD) Programs and Services Learn to Successfully Age in Place.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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
Paulson, Michael. 2017. “Patinkin Bows Out Of ‘Comet.’” New York Times, July 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson 2002; Cowan and Henkemeyer 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Cowan and Henkemeyer 2001)
  • Three authors: (Bence, Sampat, and Kopito 2001)
  • 4 or more authors: (Longo et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Urban Design
AbbreviationJ. Urban Des.
ISSN (print)1357-4809
ISSN (online)1469-9664
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Urban Studies

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