How to format your references using the Urban Habitats citation style

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

Ward, B. B. 2013. Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6144): 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donaldson, Z. R. and L. J. Young. 2008. Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neurogenetics of sociality. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5903): 900–904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, J. D., J. A. Kirk and T. Hunt. 2003. Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300(5621): 987–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lacorre, P. et al. 2000. Designing fast oxide-ion conductors based on La2Mo2O9. Nature 404(6780): 856–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg, U. and C. L. Cooper. 2010. The Science of Occupational Health. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Kovačević, B. 2013. Adaptive Digital Filters eds. Z. Banjac and M. Milosavljević. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Schryver, E. et al. 2013. Local Nasal Inflammation: T Cells and B Cells. Pp. 47–67 in Nasal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nasal Disorders, ed. T. M. Önerci. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Habitats.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2017. Here Are The 6 Questions That Can Reveal Whether You Have Adult ADHD. IFLScience. Retreived October 30, 2018, from the IFLScience Website: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/here-are-the-6-questions-that-can-reveal-whether-you-have-adult-adhd/.

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. 2016. Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Strengthen Cybersecurity Over Sensitive Data and Protect Critical Infrastructure. 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

Mier, L. M. 2012. Monitoring Electron Transfer Reactions using Ultrafast UV-Visible and Infrared Spectroscopy. Doctoral dissertation. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Villarosa, L. 2007. The Wheezing That Could Signal Childhood Asthma. New York Times: H2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ward 2013; Donaldson and Young 2008).

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

Two authors: (Donaldson and Young 2008)
Three authors: (Moore, Kirk and Hunt 2003)
4 or more authors: (Lacorre et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Habitats
ISSN (online)	1541-7115
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