How to format your references using the Landscape Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Landscape Research. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Bayer, M. (2014). Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 158–159.
A journal article with 2 authors
Shang, Y., & Brown, M. (2002). Molecular determinants for the tissue specificity of SERMs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2465–2468.
A journal article with 3 authors
Luo, Z.-X., Ji, Q., & Yuan, C.-X. (2007). Convergent dental adaptations in pseudo-tribosphenic and tribosphenic mammals. Nature, 450(7166), 93–97.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Chen, J., Ng, J., Ding, K., Fung, K. H., Lin, Z., & Chan, C. T. (2014). Negative optical torque. Scientific Reports, 4, 6386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ferrant, J.-L., Gilson, M., Jobert, S., Mayer, M., Montini, L., Ouellette, M., Rodrigues, S., & Ruffini, S. (2013). Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588 in Telecoms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Schaefer, D. (Ed.). (2014). Product Development in the Socio-sphere: Game Changing Paradigms for 21st Century Breakthrough Product Development and Innovation. Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Makhortykh, S. V. (2005). The North Black Sea Steppes in the Cimmerian Epoch. In E. Marian Scott, A. Y. Alekseev, & G. Zaitseva (Eds.), Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia (pp. 35–44). Springer Netherlands.

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 Research.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, August 3). Whatever Our Emotions Tell Us, Not All Whaling Is The Same. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whatever-our-emotions-tell-us-not-all-whaling-same/

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. (1981). The Army’s Battery Computer System (MASAD-81-18). 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
Guzman, B. P. (2015). Understanding the factors affecting local emergency service collaboration [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
Forsythe, M., & Stevenson, A. (2017, May 30). Gadfly Nettles Chinese Elite From 5th Ave. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bayer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer, 2014; Shang & Brown, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Shang & Brown, 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleLandscape Research
AbbreviationLandsc. Res.
ISSN (print)0142-6397
ISSN (online)1469-9710
ScopeGeneral Environmental Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Geography, Planning and Development

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