How to format your references using the Urban Forum citation style

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

McGee, H. (2013). Chemistry: A festive ferment. Nature, 504(7480), 372–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haldar, A., & Shenoy, V. B. (2014). Cooling a band insulator with a metal: fermionic superfluid in a dimerized holographic lattice. Scientific reports, 4, 6655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ng, B., Cai, W., & Walsh, K. (2014). The role of the SST-thermocline relationship in Indian Ocean Dipole skewness and its response to global warming. Scientific reports, 4, 6034.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Whicker, F. W., Hinton, T. G., MacDonell, M. M., Pinder, J. E., 3rd, & Habegger, L. J. (2004). Environment. Avoiding destructive remediation at DOE sites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1615–1616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane, M. J. (2015). The Mission-Driven Venture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kobyliński, A., Czarnacka-Chrobot, B., & Świerczek, J. (Eds.). (2015). Software Measurement: 25th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 10th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2015, Kraków, Poland, October 5-7, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 230). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Epstein, M. J. (2011). Correlates of Loudness. In M. Florentine, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), Loudness (pp. 89–107). 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 Urban Forum.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 16). New Horizons Brings Pluto’s Mysterious Moons Into Sharper Focus. 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. (1997). General Government Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (No. AA-97-28(1)). 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

Janowiecki, S. (2015). The evolutionary status of high and extremely low surface brightness dwarf galaxies (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Wasik, J. F. (2016, November 23). Mold-Busting Financial Start-Ups Led by Industry Veterans. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGee 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Haldar and Shenoy 2014; McGee 2013).

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

Two authors: (Haldar and Shenoy 2014)
Three or more authors: (Whicker et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Forum
ISSN (print)	1015-3802
ISSN (online)	1874-6330
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies