How to format your references using the The Urban Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Urban Review. 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

Fletcher, J. D. (2009). Education and training technology in the military. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 72–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baldwin, A. J., & Kay, L. E. (2012). Structural biology: Dynamic binding. Nature, 488(7410), 165–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomas, J. A., Simcox, D. J., & Clarke, R. T. (2009). Successful conservation of a threatened Maculinea butterfly. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5936), 80–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nefedov, I. S., Valagiannopoulos, C. A., Hashemi, S. M., & Nefedov, E. I. (2013). Total absorption in asymmetric hyperbolic media. Scientific reports, 3, 2662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rooney, T. (2010). IP Address Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Singh, M., Singh, R. B., & Hassan, M. I. (Eds.). (2014). Climate Change and Biodiversity: Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 1. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Sugiura, M., & Ohiwa, H. (2007). A Supporting System of Informatics Education for University Freshmen. In A. Tatnall, T. Okamoto, & A. Visscher (Eds.), Knowledge Management for Educational Innovation: IFIP WG 3.7 7th Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management (ITEM), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 23–26, 2006 (pp. 27–32). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 The Urban Review.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 18). Inventor Of The World Wide Web Sends Open Letter To “Save The Open Internet In Europe.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/inventor-of-the-world-wide-web-sends-open-letter-to-save-the-open-internet-in-europe/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1992). Highway Trust Fund: Strategies for Safeguarding Highway Financing (No. RCED-92-245). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wong, A. N. (2013). The model minority at risk: Barriers to mental health access for Chinese Americans (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

Kercher, S. (2017, May 10). Mothers Becoming Fast Friends, With a Swipe. New York Times, p. D10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fletcher 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Baldwin and Kay 2012; Fletcher 2009).

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

Two authors: (Baldwin and Kay 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nefedov et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Urban Review
Abbreviation	Urban Rev.
ISSN (print)	0042-0972
ISSN (online)	1573-1960
Scope	Urban Studies