How to format your references using the Progress in Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in 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

Watanabe, M. (2003). Small world, big hopes. Nature, 426(6965), 478–479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Premkumar, L. S., & Ahern, G. P. (2000). Induction of vanilloid receptor channel activity by protein kinase C. Nature, 408(6815), 985–990.

A journal article with 3 authors

Olveczky, B. P., Baccus, S. A., & Meister, M. (2003). Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature, 423(6938), 401–408.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Qi, Y., Spong, M. C., Nam, K., Banerjee, A., Jiralerspong, S., Karplus, M., & Verdine, G. L. (2009). Encounter and extrusion of an intrahelical lesion by a DNA repair enzyme. Nature, 462(7274), 762–766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ekenna, O. (2016). Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice: Obtaining a good history from the patient remains the cornerstone of an accurate clinical diagnosis: Lessons learned in many years of clinical practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wiener, R. L., & Willborn, S. L. (Eds.). (2011). Disability and Aging Discrimination: Perspectives in Law and Psychology. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cui, T., Lin, C.-W., Chien, C. H., Chao, Y. J., & Van Zee, J. (2011). Service Life Prediction of Seal in PEM Fuel Cells. In T. Proulx (Ed.), Experimental Mechanics on Emerging Energy Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (pp. 25–32). Springer.

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 Progress in Planning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 21). A Handful Of Bronze-Age Men Could Have Fathered Two Thirds Of Europeans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/handful-bronze-age-men-could-have-fathered-two-thirds-europeans/

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. (2003). Airline Ticketing: Impact of Changes in the Airline Ticket Distribution Industry (GAO-03-749). 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

Ortiz-Quiusky, S. (2015). Substance abuse, smoking, and depression among military veterans [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

Gustines, G. G. (2009, November 17). A Gallery Of Heroes, Up for Sale. 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 (Watanabe, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Premkumar & Ahern, 2000; Watanabe, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Premkumar & Ahern, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Planning
Abbreviation	Prog. Plann.
ISSN (print)	0305-9006
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development