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

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

Campbell, C.T., 2001. Surface science. Catalysts under pressure. Science 294, 1471–1472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., Bradford, M., 2008. 2008 Visualization Challenge. Science 321, 1767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nandy, D., Muñoz-Jaramillo, A., Martens, P.C.H., 2011. The unusual minimum of sunspot cycle 23 caused by meridional plasma flow variations. Nature 471, 80–82.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Joiner, W.J., Crocker, A., White, B.H., Sehgal, A., 2006. Sleep in Drosophila is regulated by adult mushroom bodies. Nature 441, 757–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephans, R.A., 2004. System Safety for the 21 st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sivakumar, M.V.K., Motha, R.P., Das, H.P. (Eds.), 2005. Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Slack, K., 2010. The Role of Mining in the Economies of Developing Countries: Time for a New Approach, in: Richards, J. (Ed.), Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–90.

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 Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Woody Vines Reduce A Forest’s Ability To Buffer Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/woody-vines-reduce-forests-ability-buffer-climate-change/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-96-28(1)). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Woo, C., 2008. Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Novel: Nation, Identity, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Baum, S., Conklin, K., Johnson, N., 2013. Stop Penalizing Poor College Students. New York Times A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell, 2001; Nesbit and Bradford, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit and Bradford, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Joiner et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urban Economics
Abbreviation	J. Urban Econ.
ISSN (print)	0094-1190
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Urban Studies