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

Tsay, Y.-F. (2014). Plant science: How to switch affinity. Nature, 507(7490), 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sherwood, S., & Fu, Q. (2014). Climate change. A drier future? Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6172), 737–739.

A journal article with 3 authors

Desai, B. S., Chadha, A., & Cook, B. (2014). The stum gene is essential for mechanical sensing in proprioceptive neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6176), 1256–1259.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, D. M., Cusack, S., Colman, A. W., Folland, C. K., Harris, G. R., & Murphy, J. M. (2007). Improved surface temperature prediction for the coming decade from a global climate model. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 796–799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M. (2011). Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dallenbach-Hellweg, G. (2006). Color Atlas of Histopathology of the Cervix Uteri (M. von Knebel Doeberitz & M. J. Trunk, Eds.; 2nd ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Christinal, H. A., Berciano, A., Díaz-Pernil, D., & Gutiérrez-Naranjo, M. A. (2014). Searching Partially Bounded Regions with P Systems. In M. Pant, K. Deep, A. Nagar, & J. C. Bansal (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2013, Volume 1 (pp. 45–54). 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 Landscape and Urban Planning.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 28). Astonishing 99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Preserved In Amber. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/astonishing-99millionyearold-bird-wings-found-preserved-in-amber/

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. (1991). Reports and Testimony: August 1991 (OPA-91-13). 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

Cheung, M. (2010). An integrated change model in project management [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, May 5). Triumph and Tragedy by the Numbers. New York Times, AR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsay, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sherwood & Fu, 2014; Tsay, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sherwood & Fu, 2014)
Three authors: (Desai et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Smith 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