How to format your references using the Urban Geography citation style

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

Robinson, Andrew (2012). Archaeology: A clash of symbols. Nature, 483(7387), 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olson, Jonathan W., & Maier, Robert J. (2002). Molecular hydrogen as an energy source for Helicobacter pylori. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1788–1790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eggenschwiler, J. T., Espinoza, E., & Anderson, K. V. (2001). Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway. Nature, 412(6843), 194–198.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Erb, Randall M., Son, Hui S., Samanta, Bappaditya, Rotello, Vincent M., & Yellen, Benjamin B. (2009). Magnetic assembly of colloidal superstructures with multipole symmetry. Nature, 457(7232), 999–1002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewe, Philip J., O’Driscoll, Michael P., & Cooper, Cary L. (2010). Coping with Work Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vouros, George, Artikis, Alexander, Stathis, Kostas, & Pitt, Jeremy (Eds.) (2009). Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, OAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008. Revised and Invited Papers (Vol. 5368). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, Chong Jae (2012). A New Government’s Policy Initiatives For School Reform in Korea. In Clementina Acedo, Don Adams, & Simona Popa (Eds.), Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms (pp. 85–102). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Geography.

Blog post

Fang, Janet (2014). Seals Blood Contains As Much Carbon Monoxide As A Heavy Smokers’,. IFLScience. Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seals-blood-contains-much-carbon-monoxide-heavy-smokers/.

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 (1976). Opportunities to Improve Planning for Solar Energy Research and Development. 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

Koller, Ronald J. (2014). The nonlinear relationship of individual commitment to organizational change and behavioral support. 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

Kelly, David (2011). Starting Out in the ’70s. New York Times. November 6 (p. BR17).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Olson & Maier, 2002; Robinson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Olson & Maier, 2002)
Three authors: (Eggenschwiler, Espinoza, & Anderson, 2001)
6 or more authors: (Erb, Son, Samanta, Rotello, & Yellen, 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Geography
ISSN (print)	0272-3638
ISSN (online)	1938-2847
Scope