How to format your references using the Habitat International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Habitat International. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). A chemical imbalance. Nature, 418(6894), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Evans, J. A., & Reimer, J. (2009). Open access and global participation in science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5917), 1025.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang, Y., Wu, D., & Fu, R. (2013). Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Scientific Reports, 3, 1119.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hornstein, E., Mansfield, J. H., Yekta, S., Hu, J. K.-H., Harfe, B. D., McManus, M. T., Baskerville, S., Bartel, D. P., & Tabin, C. J. (2005). The microRNA miR-196 acts upstream of Hoxb8 and Shh in limb development. Nature, 438(7068), 671–674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kula, G., Raab, M., & Stahn, S. (2017). Beyond Smart Beta. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Robinson, M. W., & Dalton, J. P. (Eds.). (2011). Cysteine Proteases of Pathogenic Organisms (Vol. 712). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, J. A., & Verleysen, M. (2007). Distance Preservation. In J. A. Lee & M. Verleysen (Eds.), Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction (pp. 69–131). 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 Habitat International.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 18). Check Out These Spectacular New Images Of Pluto. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-these-spectacular-new-images-pluto/

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. (1994). Space Projects: Astrophysics Facility Program Contains Cost and Technical Risks (NSIAD-94-80). 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

Harris, D. W. (2012). An examination of the impact of computer-based animations and visualization sequence on student understanding of Hadley Cells in atmospheric circulation [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Belson, K., & Pilon, M. (2012, July 1). Felix’s 200-Meter Win May Help Settle the 100. New York Times, SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Evans & Reimer, 2009; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Evans & Reimer, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hornstein et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Habitat International
Abbreviation	Habitat Int.
ISSN (print)	0197-3975
Scope	Urban Studies