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

Cullen, B. R. (2009). Viral and cellular messenger RNA targets of viral microRNAs. Nature, 457(7228), 421–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattila, H. R., & Seeley, T. D. (2007). Genetic diversity in honey bee colonies enhances productivity and fitness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5836), 362–364.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cross, C. P., Cyrenne, D.-L. M., & Brown, G. R. (2013). Sex differences in sensation-seeking: a meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 3, 2486.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tilman, D., Reich, P. B., Knops, J., Wedin, D., Mielke, T., & Lehman, C. (2001). Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 843–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pahl, J. (2016). Interference Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Goyal, S. M., & Cannon, J. L. (Eds.). (2016). Viruses in Foods (2nd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sebastião, D., Martijn Kuipers, B. W., & Correia, L. M. (2015). Exposure Assessment in Heterogeneous Networks Accounting for up- and Downlinks. In R. Agüero, T. Zinner, M. García-Lozano, B.-L. Wenning, & A. Timm-Giel (Eds.), Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 43–54). 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

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 17). The Hobbit Took Our Breath Away: Now It’s The New Normal. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-hobbit-took-our-breath-away-now-its-the-new-normal/

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. (2008). District of Columbia Public Schools: While Early Reform Efforts Tackle Critical Management Issues, a District-Wide Strategic Education Plan Would Help Guide Long-Term Efforts (GAO-08-549T). 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

Levy, M. R. (2009). Visual perception and Gestalt grouping in the landscape: Are Gestalt grouping prinicples reliable indicators of visual preference? [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, March 24). A Star Still Airlifts the Show. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cullen, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cullen, 2009; Mattila & Seeley, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mattila & Seeley, 2007)
Three authors: (Cross et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Tilman et al., 2001)

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

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