How to format your references using the Planning Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Planning Perspectives. 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

Eldakar, Omar Tonsi. “Journal Club. An Evolutionary Biologist Learns How to Be Remembered: Cheat Someone.” Nature 460, no. 7257 (August 13, 2009): 783.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirey, Patrick D., and Gary A. Lamberti. “Regulate Trade in Rare Plants.” Nature 469, no. 7331 (January 27, 2011): 465–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich, M., M. A. Fletcher, and C. M. Dobson. “Amyloid Fibrils from Muscle Myoglobin.” Nature 410, no. 6825 (March 8, 2001): 165–66.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kaufman, Alan J., David T. Johnston, James Farquhar, Andrew L. Masterson, Timothy W. Lyons, Steve Bates, Ariel D. Anbar, Gail L. Arnold, Jessica Garvin, and Roger Buick. “Late Archean Biospheric Oxygenation and Atmospheric Evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317, no. 5846 (September 28, 2007): 1900–1903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA). Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

Wolff, Karl Erich, Dmitry E. Palchunov, Nikolay G. Zagoruiko, and Urs Andelfinger, eds. Knowledge Processing and Data Analysis: First International Conference, KONT 2007, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 14-16, 2007 and First International Conference, KPP 2007,Darmstadt, Germany, September 28-30, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6581. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Jónsson, Ásgeir, and Hersir Sigurgeirsson. “Worthless Currency?” In The Icelandic Financial Crisis: A Study into the World´s Smallest Currency Area and Its Recovery from Total Banking Collapse, edited by Hersir Sigurgeirsson, 139–71. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

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 Planning Perspectives.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “NASA Set To Make Huge Announcement On Thursday Regarding Mars’ Atmosphere.” IFLScience. IFLScience, November 3, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-announce-key-findings-fate-martian-atmosphere/.

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. “Customs Automation: Effectiveness of Entry Summary Selectivity System Is Unknown.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 24, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang, Eric. “Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

Reed, Stanley, and Michael J. de la MERCED. “London and New York Duke It Out For $2 Trillion Saudi Aramco Listing.” New York Times, July 13, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Planning Perspectives
Abbreviation	Plan. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	0266-5433
ISSN (online)	1466-4518
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development