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

Mackenzie D (2000) MATHEMATICS: Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth. Science 290:1883–1884

A journal article with 2 authors

Namouni F, Porco C (2002) The confinement of Neptune’s ring arcs by the moon Galatea. Nature 417:45–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux EJ, Marshall CP, Bekker A (2010) Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature 463:934–938

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mark DF, Parnell J, Kelley SP, et al (2005) Dating of multistage fluid flow in sandstones. Science 309:2048–2051

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Banks RE, Sharp JM, Doss SD, Vanderford DA (2016) Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Ames, Iowa, USA

An edited book

Kolovos D, Wimmer M (eds) (2015) Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: 8th International Conference, ICMT 2015, Held as Part of STAF 2015, L’Aquila, Italy, July 20-21, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Van Damme C, Coenen T, Vandijck E (2008) Turning a Corporate Folksonomy into a Lightweight Corporate Ontology. In: Abramowicz W, Fensel D (eds) Business Information Systems: 11th International Conference, BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 36–47

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

Luntz S (2014) Gusev Crater On Mars Was Once a Lake. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/gusev-crater-mars-was-once-lake/. 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 (1996) Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Carver JR (2009) CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or chief “marginalized” officer. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Friday File. New York Times C25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackenzie 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mackenzie 2000; Namouni and Porco 2002).

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

Two authors: (Namouni and Porco 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mark et al. 2005)

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