How to format your references using the Review of Regional Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Regional Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Killian TC (2007) Ultracold neutral plasmas. Science 316:705–708

A journal article with 2 authors

Isaksen ISA, Dalsøren SB (2011) Atmospheric science. Getting a better estimate of an atmospheric radical. Science 331:38–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Tingley MW, Estes LD, Wilcove DS (2013) Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature 500:271–272

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ricaurte GA, Yuan J, Hatzidimitriou G, et al (2002) Severe dopaminergic neurotoxicity in primates after a common recreational dose regimen of MDMA (“ecstasy”). Science 297:2260–2263

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cicek V (2013) Cathodic Protection. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sankai Y, Suzuki K, Hasegawa Y (eds) (2014) Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Jang HJ, Park SW, Kwag J (2015) Current Trends in Memory Implantation and Rehabilitation. In: Lee S-W, Bülthoff HH, Müller K-R (eds) Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–72

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 Review of Regional Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How the Natural World has Helped Influence Culture and Society. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-natural-world-has-helped-influence-culture-and-society/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1974) Administration of the Office of Education’s Student Financial Aid Program. 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

Kino MY (2015) My Concierge MD, Inc. a business plan. 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

Brantley B (2015) The Man Who Fell, Looking Well. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Killian 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Killian 2007; Isaksen and Dalsøren 2011).

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

Two authors: (Isaksen and Dalsøren 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ricaurte et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Regional Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Reg. Res.
ISSN (print)	0173-7600
ISSN (online)	1613-9836
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development