How to format your references using the Land Use Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Land Use Policy. 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

Tracey, K.J., 2011. Cell biology. Ancient neurons regulate immunity. Science 332, 673–674.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cho, H.-S., Leahy, D.J., 2002. Structure of the extracellular region of HER3 reveals an interdomain tether. Science 297, 1330–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser, S.M., Malik, H.S., Emerman, M., 2007. Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein. Science 316, 1756–1758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Otero, V., Finkelstein, N., McCray, R., Pollock, S., 2006. Professional development. Who is responsible for preparing science teachers? Science 313, 445–446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massari, M., Gianfrate, G., Zanetti, L., 2016. Corporate Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Koivurova, T., Keskitalo, E.C.H., Bankes, N. (Eds.), 2009. Climate Governance in the Arctic, Environment & Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pohl, K.-H., 2016. “Immanent Transcendence” in the Chinese Tradition: Remarks on a Chinese (and Sinological) Controversy, in: Brown, N., Franke, W. (Eds.), Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 103–123.

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 Land Use Policy.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. So You Can Now 3D Print Sculptures Made Of American Cheese [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/so-you-can-now-3d-print-sculptures-made-of-american-cheese/ (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, 2001. Motor Vehicle Safety: NHTSA’s Ability to Detect and Recall Defective Replacement Crash Parts Is Limited (No. GAO-01-225). 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

Delaney, R.M., 2014. A qualitative descriptive case study explaining professional development in community corrections (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Walsh, M.W., Dewan, S., 2012. Governors’ Rulings Mean Lower Deductibles for Storm-Tossed Homeowners. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tracey, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cho and Leahy, 2002; Tracey, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cho and Leahy, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Otero et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Land Use Policy
Abbreviation	Land use policy
ISSN (print)	0264-8377
Scope	Forestry Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Geography, Planning and Development