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

Smaglik, Paul. “Come Together.” Nature 434, no. 7030 (March 10, 2005): 252–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pörtner, Hans O., and Anthony P. Farrell. “Ecology. Physiology and Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, no. 5902 (October 31, 2008): 690–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauf, S., I. C. Waizenegger, and J. M. Peters. “Cohesin Cleavage by Separase Required for Anaphase and Cytokinesis in Human Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5533 (August 17, 2001): 1320–23.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hashimoto, Hideharu, John R. Horton, Xing Zhang, Magnolia Bostick, Steven E. Jacobsen, and Xiaodong Cheng. “The SRA Domain of UHRF1 Flips 5-Methylcytosine out of the DNA Helix.” Nature 455, no. 7214 (October 9, 2008): 826–29.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knopf, F. Carl. Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Jackson, Mike, David Nelson, and Sue Stirk, eds. Database: Enterprise, Skills and Innovation: 22nd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 22, Sunderland, UK, July 5-7, 2005. Proceedings. Vol. 3567. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Lucena, Catarina, João Sarraipa, and Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves. “A Knowledge Management Framework to Support Online Communities Creation.” In Technological Innovation for Collective Awareness Systems: 5th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2014, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, April 7-9, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Nuno S. Barrento, and Ricardo Mendonça, 29–36. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

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

Carpineti, Alfredo. “Rosetta’s Comet Colors Reveal Interesting Surface Composition.” IFLScience. IFLScience, November 12, 2015.

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. “University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 8, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustillo, Marisela Fuentes. “Heart and Art: Post-Adoption Program: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Billard, Mary. “A Texas Address Migrates.” New York Times, August 5, 2010.

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