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

Forde A (2005) The class of 2005. Germany: deciphering cellular processes. Science 310:519–520

A journal article with 2 authors

Milne S, Hinde R (2005) Obituary: Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005. Nature 437:634

A journal article with 3 authors

Afraz S-R, Kiani R, Esteky H (2006) Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization. Nature 442:692–695

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dong J, Liu J, Kang G, et al (2014) Pushing the resolution of photolithography down to 15nm by surface plasmon interference. Sci Rep 4:5618

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stack T, Ostrom LT, Wilhelmsen CA (2016) Occupational Ergonomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zhou H (2015) Cooperative Vehicular Communications in the Drive-thru Internet. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Yanguas-Gil A, Wormeester H (2013) Relationship Between Surface Morphology and Effective Medium Roughness. In: Losurdo M, Hingerl K (eds) Ellipsometry at the Nanoscale. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 179–202

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

Carpineti A (2016) What Would Happen If You Tried To Stand On Jupiter? In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 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

Beard AR (2017) Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation. 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

Johnson G (2014) Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer. New York Times SR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forde 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Milne and Hinde 2005; Forde 2005).

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

Two authors: (Milne and Hinde 2005)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2014)

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