How to format your references using the Long Range Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Long Range 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.
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
Dyson, F., 2005. The death of a star. Nature 438, 1086.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gallouzi, I.E., Steitz, J.A., 2001. Delineation of mRNA export pathways by the use of cell-permeable peptides. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294, 1895–1901.
A journal article with 3 authors
Engler, H.S., Spencer, K.C., Gilbert, L.E., 2000. Preventing cyanide release from leaves. Nature 406, 144–145.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Liu, L., Li, Y., Wang, R., Yin, C., Dong, Q., Hing, H., Kim, C., Welsh, M.J., 2007. Drosophila hygrosensation requires the TRP channels water witch and nanchung. Nature 450, 294–298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Feldmann, D., 2015. Social Movements For Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Sahin, A. (Ed.), 2015. A Practice-based Model of STEM Teaching: STEM Students on the Stage (SOS)TM. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.
A chapter in an edited book
Pelekis, C., Schauer, M., 2013. Network Coloring and Colored Coin Games, in: Alpern, S., Fokkink, R., Gąsieniec, L., Lindelauf, R., Subrahmanian, V.S. (Eds.), Search Theory: A Game Theoretic Perspective. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 59–73.

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 Long Range Planning.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2014. Is Your Religion Ready To Meet ET? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Attack Warning: ADP and Communication Modernization Programs for Warning and Assessment (No. IMTEC-87-23FS). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Lam, N.N., 2013. The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Johnson, G., 2011. The Enduring Afterglow. New York Times WK1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dyson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gallouzi and Steitz, 2001; Dyson, 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Gallouzi and Steitz, 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleLong Range Planning
AbbreviationLong Range Plann.
ISSN (print)0024-6301
ScopeStrategy and Management
Finance
Geography, Planning and Development

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