How to format your references using the Landscape and Urban Planning citation style

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

Vella, D. (2015). ROBOTICS. Two leaps forward for robot locomotion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6247), 472–473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conover, D. O., & Munch, S. B. (2002). Sustaining fisheries yields over evolutionary time scales. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5578), 94–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renata, H., Zhou, Q., & Baran, P. S. (2013). Strategic redox relay enables a scalable synthesis of ouabagenin, a bioactive cardenolide. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6115), 59–63.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mendillo, M., Laurent, S., Wilson, J., Baumgardner, J., Konrad, J., & Karl, W. C. (2007). The sources of sodium escaping from Io revealed by spectral high definition imaging. Nature, 448(7151), 330–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Groves, E. (2009). The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dannen, C. (2011). Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (C. White, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Stickler, B. A., & Schachinger, E. (2016). Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems. In E. Schachinger (Ed.), Basic Concepts in Computational Physics (pp. 63–83). Springer International Publishing.

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 Landscape and Urban Planning.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017, May 25). New Study Reveals Zika Virus Was Circulating The Americas Before 2015’s Outbreak. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1976). Problems in the Administration of Third-Party Funds under the Vocational Rehabilitation Program in Indiana (HRD-77-20). 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

Altebarmakian, T. (2012). Salt of the Skin [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Herrman, J. (2017, June 27). Counter Offensive. New York Times, MM11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vella, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Conover & Munch, 2002; Vella, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Conover & Munch, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mendillo et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Landscape and Urban Planning
Abbreviation	Landsc. Urban Plan.
ISSN (print)	0169-2046
Scope	Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation