How to format your references using the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 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

Tomioka, Katsuhiro. 2015. “Condensed-Matter Physics: Flat Transistor Defies the Limit.” Nature 526 (7571): 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland, Michelle L., and Morris J. Birnbaum. 2011. “Cell Biology. ADaPting to Energetic Stress.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6036): 1387–1388.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siu, Z. B., M. B. A. Jalil, and S. G. Tan. 2014. “Topological State Transport in Topological Insulators under the Influence of Hexagonal Warping and Exchange Coupling to In-Plane Magnetizations.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 5062.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ji, Hong, Lauren I. R. Ehrlich, Jun Seita, Peter Murakami, Akiko Doi, Paul Lindau, Hwajin Lee, et al. 2010. “Comprehensive Methylome Map of Lineage Commitment from Haematopoietic Progenitors.” Nature 467 (7313): 338–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt, Jason. 2013. The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Jones, Lynne C., Warren O. Haggard, and A. Seth Greenwald, eds. 2014. Metal-on-Metal Bearings: A Clinical Practicum. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hitch, Jason D. 2016. “Considerations on the Transnationality of International Commercial Arbitration Awards in the Context of the Demand for Legal Certainty.” In Legal Certainty in a Contemporary Context: Private and Criminal Law Perspectives, edited by Mark Fenwick and Stefan Wrbka, 61–67. Singapore: 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 Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “This New Treatment Could Make Pancreatic Cancer A Manageable Disease.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-new-treatment-could-make-pancreatic-cancer-a-manageable-disease/.

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. 2000. Space Station: Russian Compliance With Safety Requirements. T-NSIAD-00-128. 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

Kwon, Yongjae. 2009. “Extreme Value Estimators: Their Long Memory Feature and Forecasting Performances in the U.S. Stock Indexes.” 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

Mueller, Benjamin. 2015. “Bicyclist Is Killed by Car Fleeing Court Police.” New York Times, May 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tomioka 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Tomioka 2015; Bland and Birnbaum 2011).

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

Two authors: (Bland and Birnbaum 2011)
Three authors: (Siu, Jalil, and Tan 2014)
4 or more authors: (Ji et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
Abbreviation	J. Urban.
ISSN (print)	1754-9175
ISSN (online)	1754-9183
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies