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

Ambros, V. 2001. “Development. Dicing up RNAs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5531): 811–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hood, Leroy, and David Galas. 2003. “The Digital Code of DNA.” Nature 421 (6921): 444–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, Suo, Qi Xu, and Yong Qin. 2013. “Vibration Driven Vehicle Inspired from Grass Spike.” Scientific Reports 3: 1851.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Melchinger, Albrecht E., Wolfgang Schipprack, Tobias Würschum, Shaojiang Chen, and Frank Technow. 2013. “Rapid and Accurate Identification of in Vivo-Induced Haploid Seeds Based on Oil Content in Maize.” Scientific Reports 3: 2129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsen, Dan. 2015. The Lean Product Playbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ideker, Trey, and Vineet Bafna, eds. 2007. Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics: Joint RECOMB 2006 Satellite Workshops on Systems Biology and on Computational Proteomics, San Diego, CA, USA, December 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 4532. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanley, Jason. 2016. “A Future Not So Golden: Liberalization, Mechanization and Conflict in Arni’s Gold Ornaments Cluster.” In Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change, edited by Barbara Harriss-White, 131–150. New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Fang, Janet. 2014. “There Are Only Five Northern White Rhinos Left In The World.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-five-northern-white-rhinos-are-left-world/.

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. 1990. Management Improvements Essential for Key Automated Systems at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. T-IMTEC-90-13. 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

Willhite, David Grant. 2001. “Purification, Identification, and Partial Characterization of Proteins Associated with the Adaptive Immune Response to Soluble Protein Antigen in the American Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana).” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Kelly, Caitlin. 2005. “Know When to Hold ’em, Know When to Fold ’Em.” New York Times, February 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambros 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ambros 2001; Hood and Galas 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hood and Galas 2003)
Three authors: (Bai, Xu, and Qin 2013)
4 or more authors: (Melchinger et al. 2013)

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