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

Braun, D. M. (2012). Plant science. SWEET! The pathway is complete. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6065), 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maselli, V., & Trincardi, F. (2013). Man made deltas. Scientific Reports, 3, 1926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chait, R., Craney, A., & Kishony, R. (2007). Antibiotic interactions that select against resistance. Nature, 446(7136), 668–671.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kramer, J., Obejero-Paz, C. A., Myatt, G., Kuryshev, Y. A., Bruening-Wright, A., Verducci, J. S., & Brown, A. M. (2013). MICE models: superior to the HERG model in predicting Torsade de Pointes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monino, J.-L., & Sedkaoui, S. (2016). Big Data, Open Data and Data Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Correa, J. R., Hevia, A., & Kiwi, M. (Eds.). (2006). LATIN 2006: Theoretical Informatics: 7th Latin American Symposium, Valdivia, Chile, March 20-24, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 3887). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgianni, Y., Cascini, G., & Rotini, F. (2012). Application of IPPR to the Reengineering Problems of Class 1. In Y. Borgianni & G. Cascini (Eds.), Re-engineering of Products and Processes: How to Achieve Global Success in the Changing Marketplace (pp. 87–105). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 21). Microsoft Is Trying To “Solve” Cancer. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1990). Education Regulations: Reasons for Delays in Issuance (HRD-91-4BR). 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

Dalbey, S. B. (2017). Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency [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

French, A. (2014, February 28). The Last, Disposable Action Hero. New York Times, MM32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Braun, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Braun, 2012; Maselli & Trincardi, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Maselli & Trincardi, 2013)
Three authors: (Chait et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Kramer et al., 2013)

About the journal

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