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

Zimmerman, E., 2004. Recruiters and academia. Nature 431, 1022.

A journal article with 2 authors

Efferson, C., Vogt, S., 2013. Viewing men’s faces does not lead to accurate predictions of trustworthiness. Sci. Rep. 3, 1047.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soares, L., Parisi, M., Bonini, N.M., 2014. Axon injury and regeneration in the adult Drosophila. Sci. Rep. 4, 6199.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rosenfeld, D., Dai, J., Yu, X., Yao, Z., Xu, X., Yang, X., Du, C., 2007. Inverse relations between amounts of air pollution and orographic precipitation. Science 315, 1396–1398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hinkelmann, K., Kempthorne, O., 2005. Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Donnelly, M., Paggetti, C., Nugent, C., Mokhtari, M. (Eds.), 2012. Impact Analysis of Solutions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, Artiminio, Italy, June 12-15, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tjoa, T., Armstrong, W.B., 2016. Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Laryngeal Cancer, in: Wong, B.J.-F., Ilgner, J. (Eds.), Biomedical Optics in Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–66.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. NASA: Streaks Of Salt On Mars Mean Flowing Water, And Raise New Hopes Of Finding Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-streaks-salt-mars-mean-flowing-water-and-raise-new-hopes-finding-life/ (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, 1982. DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers (No. MASAD-82-16). 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

Brecese, J.A., 2012. Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Hartocollis, A., 2014. And Surrogacy Makes 3. New York Times E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmerman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Efferson and Vogt, 2013; Zimmerman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Efferson and Vogt, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rosenfeld et al., 2007)

About the journal

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