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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Hasselmo, M. E. (2008). Neuroscience. The scale of experience. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5885), 46–47.
A journal article with 2 authors
Schulze-Lefert, P., & Bieri, S. (2005). Plant sciences. Recognition at a distance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5721), 506–508.
A journal article with 3 authors
Saborio, G. P., Permanne, B., & Soto, C. (2001). Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding. Nature, 411(6839), 810–813.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Wilmut, I., Beaujean, N., de Sousa, P. A., Dinnyes, A., King, T. J., Paterson, L. A., Wells, D. N., & Young, L. E. (2002). Somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature, 419(6907), 583–586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Castle, D., Cline, C., Daar, A. S., Tsamis, C., & Singer, P. A. (2006). Science, Society, and the Supermarket. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Heydon, R. (2016). Why Multimodal Literacy Matters: (Re)conceptualizing Literacy and Wellbeing through Singing-Infused Multimodal, Intergenerational Curricula (S. O’Neill, Ed.). SensePublishers.
A chapter in an edited book
Waltman, L., & Yan, E. (2014). PageRank-Related Methods for Analyzing Citation Networks. In Y. Ding, R. Rousseau, & D. Wolfram (Eds.), Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice (pp. 83–100). 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
Taub, B. (2016, July 25). Mystery Of Belgian King’s Blood Finally Solved After 80 Years. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mystery-belgian-king-blood-finally-solved-after-80-years/

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. (1988). Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. V, No. 3 (138866). 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
Rodriguez, F. (2009). A historical analysis of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States [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
Ortved, J. (2016, October 6). Bottoms Up: It’s Her Brand. New York Times, D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hasselmo, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hasselmo, 2008; Schulze-Lefert & Bieri, 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Schulze-Lefert & Bieri, 2005)
  • Three authors: (Saborio et al., 2001)
  • 6 or more authors: (Wilmut et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleLandscape and Urban Planning
AbbreviationLandsc. Urban Plan.
ISSN (print)0169-2046
ScopeEcology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Nature and Landscape Conservation

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