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

Schlosshauer, Maximilian (2008). Lifting the fog from the north. Nature, 453(7191), 39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atencia, Javier, & Beebe, David J. (2005). Controlled microfluidic interfaces. Nature, 437(7059), 648–655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bell, Gordon, Hey, Tony, & Szalay, Alex (2009). Computer science. Beyond the data deluge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1297–1298.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Celler, K., Hödl, I., Simone, A., Battin, T. J., & Picioreanu, C. (2014). A mass-spring model unveils the morphogenesis of phototrophic Diatoma biofilms. Scientific reports, 4, 3649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger, Richard M. (2015). Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Calisesi, Y., Bonnet, R-M, Gray, L., Langen, J., & Lockwood, M. (Eds.) (2007). Solar Variability and Planetary Climates (Vol. 23). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Persona, Paolo, & Ori, Carlo (2014). Simulation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. In Antonino Gullo (Ed.), Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting - International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine (pp. 39–46). Milano: 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 Geography.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin (2017). Chernobyl Set To Become Gigantic Solar Power Park,. IFLScience. Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chernobyl-gigantic-solar-power-park/.

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 (1973). Patrol Frigate. 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

Kalafut, Andrew J. (2010). Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis. 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

Williams, John (2017). A Change Means a Challenge. New York Times. September 9 (p. C1).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlosshauer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Atencia & Beebe, 2005; Schlosshauer, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Atencia & Beebe, 2005)
Three authors: (Bell, Hey, & Szalay, 2009)
Four or more authors: (Celler, Hödl, Simone, Battin, & Picioreanu, 2014)

About the journal

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

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