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:

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

Feldbaum, C., 2002. Biotechnology. Some history should be repeated. Science 295, 975.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charness, G., Fehr, E., 2015. ECONOMICS. From the lab to the real world. Science 350, 512–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, J.P., Cho, C., Cohen, W.M., 2005. Science and law. View from the bench: patents and material transfers. Science 309, 2002–2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bouarab, K., Melton, R., Peart, J., Baulcombe, D., Osbourn, A., 2002. A saponin-detoxifying enzyme mediates suppression of plant defences. Nature 418, 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armaroli, N., Balzani, V., 2010. Energy for a Sustainable World. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Adamatzky, A. (Ed.), 2010. Game of Life Cellular Automata. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Benedetto, J.J., Begué, M.J., 2015. Fourier Operators in Applied Harmonic Analysis, in: Pfander, G.E. (Ed.), Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 185–215.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Modified HIV Cures Rare Genetic Disorder In Children [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2010. Aviation Safety: Preliminary Information on Aircraft Icing and Winter Operations (No. GAO-10-441T). 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

Gogni de Tolentino, M.G., 2010. Challenges and successes of monolingual Spanish-speaking foster parents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., 2016. Comic Book Aims to Help Orlando Survivors. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldbaum, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Charness and Fehr, 2015; Feldbaum, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Charness and Fehr, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bouarab et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regional Science and Urban Economics
Abbreviation	Reg. Sci. Urban Econ.
ISSN (print)	0166-0462
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Urban Studies