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

Hartung, T. (2009). Toxicology for the twenty-first century. Nature, 460(7252), 208–212.

A journal article with 2 authors

James, J. R., & Vale, R. D. (2012). Biophysical mechanism of T-cell receptor triggering in a reconstituted system. Nature, 487(7405), 64–69.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meierbachtol, T., Harper, J., & Humphrey, N. (2013). Basal drainage system response to increasing surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 777–779.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dolev, M., Heiblum, M., Umansky, V., Stern, A., & Mahalu, D. (2008). Observation of a quarter of an electron charge at the nu = 5/2 quantum Hall state. Nature, 452(7189), 829–834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kanel, G. C. (2017). Pathology of Liver Diseases. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kampen, W. U., & Fischer, M. (Eds.). (2015). Local Treatment of Inflammatory Joint Diseases: Benefits and Risks. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonadeo, C. M., Guidi, A., Straface, A., Marcotte, R. D., Bonadeo, C. M., Noble, S., Cottrell, E. J., Lahey, S. E., Burnett, C., Marenbon, J., Zografidis, G., Erismann, C., Boer, S., Brumberg-Chaumont, J., Hoenen, M. J. F. M., Carusi, P., Moureau, S., Genequand, C., Cullen, C., … Benedetto, M. (2011). Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ (Rhazes). In H. Lagerlund (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (pp. 6–10). 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 Progress in Planning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, April 26). Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl Still Holds Record As Worst Nuclear Accident For Public Health. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/forget-fukushima-chernobyl-still-holds-record-worst-nuclear-accident-public-health/

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. (2004). Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration (GAO-04-494). 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

Pookcharoen, S. (2009). Metacognitive online reading strategies among Thai EFL university students [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Davey, M. (2013, November 15). Murder Charge In a Case Tied To Race Issues. 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 (Hartung, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hartung, 2009; James & Vale, 2012).

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

Two authors: (James & Vale, 2012)
Three authors: (Meierbachtol et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Dolev et al., 2008)

About the journal

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