How to format your references using the International Journal of Urban Sciences citation style

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

Bell, L. E. (2008). Cooling, heating, generating power, and recovering waste heat with thermoelectric systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5895), 1457–1461.

A journal article with 2 authors

Song, W. J., & Tezcan, F. A. (2014). A designed supramolecular protein assembly with in vivo enzymatic activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6216), 1525–1528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rand, D. G., Greene, J. D., & Nowak, M. A. (2012). Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature, 489(7416), 427–430.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ogle, J. M., Brodersen, D. E., Clemons, W. M., Jr, Tarry, M. J., Carter, A. P., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2001). Recognition of cognate transfer RNA by the 30S ribosomal subunit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5518), 897–902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence, R. (2008). Introductory Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Saari, V. (2012). Continuous-Time Low-Pass Filters for Integrated Wideband Radio Receivers (J. Ryynänen & S. Lindfors, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Miranda, J. P., Carrillo, D., Mathilde, F., de Figueiredo, F. A. P., & Bazzo, J. J. (2016). Wavelet-Based Narrowband Interference Suppression in Long Term Evolution Physical Channels. In A. Paradisi, M. D. Yacoub, F. Lira Figueiredo, & T. Tronco (Eds.), Long Term Evolution: 4G and Beyond (pp. 79–101). Springer International Publishing.

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 Urban Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 19). Gigantic Landslide Was Bigger Than Rhode Island. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gigantic-ancient-landslide-was-bigger-rhode-island/

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. (1986). Legislative Developments (132007). 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

Alvarez, C. (2015). Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Chapman, M. M. (2015, October 27). G.M.’s Tentative Labor Deal Is Set for Approval by Union Leaders. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bell, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bell, 2008; Song & Tezcan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Song & Tezcan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ogle et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Urban Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Urban Sci.
ISSN (print)	1226-5934
ISSN (online)	2161-6779
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies