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

Dalton, R. (2005). California stem-cell institute fights legal challenges. Nature, 435(7042), 544.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pawlowska, T. E., & Taylor, J. W. (2004). Organization of genetic variation in individuals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature, 427(6976), 733–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deleault, N. R., Lucassen, R. W., & Supattapone, S. (2003). RNA molecules stimulate prion protein conversion. Nature, 425(6959), 717–720.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Maeda, N., Chen, N., Tirrell, M., & Israelachvili, J. N. (2002). Adhesion and friction mechanisms of polymer-on-polymer surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 379–382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, R. H., & Rodrick, G. E. (2005). Food Safety Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Menon, M. E., Terkla, D. G., & Gibbs, P. (Eds.). (2014). Using Data to Improve Higher Education: Research, Policy and Practice. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Pieschl, S., Stahl, E., & Bromme, R. (2013). Adaptation to Context as Core Component of Self-Regulated Learning: The Example of Complexity and Epistemic Beliefs. In R. Azevedo & V. Aleven (Eds.), International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies (pp. 53–65). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Andrew, D. (2016, November 23). Would Gender Differences Exist If We Treated All People The Same From Birth? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1999). Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Progress in Improving Its Financial Condition Has Been Mixed (No. RCED-99-181). 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

DeMoss, M. D. (2010). Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Delreal, J. A., & Bromwich, J. E. (2017, October 2). Suspect, an Unmoored Retiree, Kept Quiet and Gambled Often. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2005; Pawlowska and Taylor 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pawlowska and Taylor 2004)
Three or more authors: (Maeda et al. 2002)

About the journal

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