How to format your references using the Housing Policy Debate citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Housing Policy Debate. 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 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

Högbom, M. (2014). Nitrogenase Mechanism. A dynamic tool for nitrogen reduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6204), 1568.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doumy, G., & DiMauro, L. F. (2008). Chemistry. Interrogating molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5905), 1194–1195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheng, L., Hong, W., & Hao, Z.-C. (2014). Generation of electromagnetic waves with arbitrary orbital angular momentum modes. Scientific Reports, 4, 4814.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Asvany, O., P, P. K., Redlich, B., Hegemann, I., Schlemmer, S., & Marx, D. (2005). Understanding the infrared spectrum of bare CH5+. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1219–1222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, A. (2011). Shifting the Earth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marsico, G. (Ed.). (2015). Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 2). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

David, S., & Meltzer, S. J. (2011). Epigenetic Alterations as Contributors to the Pathogenesis, Detection, Prognosis and Treatment of Human Pre-invasive Neoplasia. In R. C. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Pre-Invasive Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Management (pp. 41–63). 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 Housing Policy Debate.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, August 27). Watch How This Insanely Clever Orca Catches A Bird. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1990). Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1988 (RCED-90-35). 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

Hayes, M. G. (2010). A qualitative case study of cultural competency among Advanced Placement teachers in Florida [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Fernandez, M., Pérez-Peña, R., & Montgomery, D. (2017, July 24). For Human Cargo, Truck Door Closed Out the Light, and Life. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Högbom, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Doumy & DiMauro, 2008; Högbom, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Doumy & DiMauro, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Asvany et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Housing Policy Debate
Abbreviation	Hous. Policy Debate
ISSN (print)	1051-1482
ISSN (online)	2152-050X
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Urban Studies