How to format your references using the Regional Science and Urban Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regional Science and Urban Economics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Vrakking, M., 2009. Chemical physics: Electronic movies. Nature 460, 960–961.
A journal article with 2 authors
Bull, J.J., Parrish, C.R., 2002. Microbiology. A binding contract for anthrax. Science 297, 201–202.
A journal article with 3 authors
Liu, W., Shang, Y., Li, W., 2014. gp78 elongates of polyubiquitin chains from the distal end through the cooperation of its G2BR and CUE domains. Sci. Rep. 4, 7138.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Lemon, B., Inouye, C., King, D.S., Tjian, R., 2001. Selectivity of chromatin-remodelling cofactors for ligand-activated transcription. Nature 414, 924–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Anderson, J.B., 2017. Bandwidth Efficient Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., 2016. Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.
A chapter in an edited book
Dingli, A., Seychell, D., 2015. Nurturing Digital Natives, in: Seychell, D. (Ed.), The New Digital Natives: Cutting the Chord. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–71.

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 Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Blog post
Andrews, R., 2017. California Just Signed A New Climate Change Agreement With China [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/california-signed-climate-change-agreement-china/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. ADP Procurement: Army Accounting System Modernization (No. IMTEC-88-14BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Borisova-Kidder, A., 2006. Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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
Pols, M., 2017. World War II Fiction: The Home Front. New York Times BR26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vrakking, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bull and Parrish, 2002; Vrakking, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Bull and Parrish, 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Lemon et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleRegional Science and Urban Economics
AbbreviationReg. Sci. Urban Econ.
ISSN (print)0166-0462
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics
Urban Studies

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