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

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

Kono M. 2006. Geophysics. Ships’ logs and archeomagnetism. Science. 312(5775):865–866.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thrall PH, Burdon JJ. 2003. Evolution of virulence in a plant host-pathogen metapopulation. Science. 299(5613):1735–1737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Standen EM, Du TY, Larsson HCE. 2014. Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods. Nature. 513(7516):54–58.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hajkova P, Ancelin K, Waldmann T, Lacoste N, Lange UC, Cesari F, Lee C, Almouzni G, Schneider R, Surani MA. 2008. Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature. 452(7189):877–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash CE. 2011. The History of Aquaculture. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gordon CM, LeBoff MS, editors. 2015. The Female Athlete Triad: A Clinical Guide. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Chesti M-U-H, Qadri TN, Hamid A, Qadri J, Azooz MM, Ahmad P. 2013. Role of Bio-fertilizers in Crop Improvement. In: Hakeem KR, Ahmad P, Ozturk M, editors. Crop Improvement: New Approaches and Modern Techniques. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 189–208.

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 Sustainable Development.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. Discovery Of New Biomarkers Could Lead To Earlier Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/discovery-new-biomarkers-could-lead-earlier-detection-pancreatic-cancer/

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. 1971. Federal Funds Misused by the School System in Trimble County, Kentucky. 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

Parker HA. 2017. Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Hodara S. 2014. Creatures Great, Small and Imagined. New York Times.:CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kono 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Thrall and Burdon 2003; Kono 2006).

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

Two authors: (Thrall and Burdon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hajkova et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
Abbreviation	Int. J. Urban Sustain. Dev.
ISSN (print)	1946-3138
ISSN (online)	1946-3146
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies