How to format your references using the Journal of Urban Planning and Development citation style

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

Macilwain, C. 2000. “US considers moves to relieve morale crisis at energy labs.” Nature, 407 (6804): 547–548.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields, S., and M. Johnston. 2002. “Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature.” Science, 296 (5568): 671–672.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chabanov, A. A., M. Stoytchev, and A. Z. Genack. 2000. “Statistical signatures of photon localization.” Nature, 404 (6780): 850–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roche, S., F. A. Rey, Y. Gaudin, and S. Bressanelli. 2007. “Structure of the prefusion form of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G.” Science, 315 (5813): 843–848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grove, L. C. 1997. Groups and Characters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheng, D. 2011. Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks: A Semi-tensor Product Approach. Communications and Control Engineering, (H. Qi and Z. Li, eds.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ciurea, M. L., and V. Iancu. 2010. “Quantum Confinement in Nanometric Structures.” New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications, D. Baleanu, Z. B. Guvenc, and J. A. T. Machado, eds., 57–67. 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 Planning and Development.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. “Child ‘Born Twice’ After Earlier Surgery To Remove Fetal Tumor.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/child-born-twice-after-earlier-surgery-to-remove-fetal-tumor/.

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. 2012. OPM Retirement Modernization: Progress Has Been Hindered by Longstanding Information Technology Management Weaknesses. 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

Kamph, M. 2017. “Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and ‘Frauds’ within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection.” Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Brantley, B. 2017. “Upending a Whodunit.” New York Times, April 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fields and Johnston 2002; Macilwain 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fields and Johnston 2002)
Three or more authors: (Roche et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Abbreviation	J. Urban Plan. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0733-9488
ISSN (online)	1943-5444
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Development Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies