How to format your references using the International Journal of Housing Policy citation style

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

Goldstein, D. B. (2011). Growth of genome screening needs debate. Nature, 476(7358), 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Braun-Munzinger, P., & Stachel, J. (2007). The quest for the quark-gluon plasma. Nature, 448(7151), 302–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clem, R. L., Celikel, T., & Barth, A. L. (2008). Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5859), 101–104.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Han, J., Zhou, H., Horazdovsky, B., Zhang, K., Xu, R.-M., & Zhang, Z. (2007). Rtt109 acetylates histone H3 lysine 56 and functions in DNA replication. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5812), 653–655.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lowman, M. (2017). A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ellerton, N. F. (2014). Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books (M. A. (ken) Clements, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mokhtari, M., & Martaj, N. (2012). Chapitre 5 Applications de la modélisation physique. In N. Martaj (Ed.), Electronique Appliquée, Electromécanique sous Simscape & SimPowerSystems (Matlab/Simulink) (pp. 327–348). 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 International Journal of Housing Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 4). Two New Dwarf Planets Discovered in Outer Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-new-dwarf-planets-discovered-outer-solar-system/

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. (1987). Attack Warning: ADP and Communication Modernization Programs for Warning and Assessment (IMTEC-87-23FS). 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

Best, M. L. (2013). Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 8). Mets Fix Duda’s Swing, With Help From an Angel. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldstein, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Braun-Munzinger & Stachel, 2007; Goldstein, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Braun-Munzinger & Stachel, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Housing Policy
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Hous. Pol.
ISSN (print)	1461-6718
ISSN (online)	1473-3269
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development