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

Cyranoski, D., 2005. Malaysia plans “red book” in its attempts to go green. Nature 436, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poon, A.C., Ferrell, J.E., Jr, 2007. Systems biology. A clock with a flip switch. Science 318, 757–758.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott, P.A., Stone, D.A., Allen, M.R., 2004. Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003. Nature 432, 610–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cerullo, G., Polli, D., Lanzani, G., De Silvestri, S., Hashimoto, H., Cogdell, R.J., 2002. Photosynthetic light harvesting by carotenoids: detection of an intermediate excited state. Science 298, 2395–2398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezzoug, A., El-Hadi Zaïm, M., 2011. Non-conventional Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vymazal, J. (Ed.), 2015. The Role of Natural and Constructed Wetlands in Nutrient Cycling and Retention on the Landscape. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Becvar, A., Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., 2008. Representational Gestures as Cognitive Artifacts for Developing Theories in a Scientific Laboratory, in: Halverson, C.A., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A. (Eds.), Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW, Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London, pp. 117–143.

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. Fossil Of World’s Earliest Modern Bird Could Help Us Understand The Extinction Of Dinosaurs [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, 2005. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust (No. GAO-05-155). 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

Zamora, L., 2017. Azura digital health: Scheduling application and prescription service for women’s health (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

Gottlieb, S., Emanuel, E.J., 2013. No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage. New York Times A35.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski, 2005; Poon and Ferrell, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Poon and Ferrell, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Cerullo 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

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