How to format your references using the Journal of Land Use Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Land Use Science. 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

Perez, R. (2012). Chemistry. Discriminating chemical bonds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6100), 1305–1306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silphaduang, U., & Noga, E. J. (2001). Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish. Nature, 414(6861), 268–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jockers, M. L., Sag, M., & Schultz, J. (2012). Digital archives: Don’t let copyright block data mining. Nature, 490(7418), 29–30.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hoffmann, D. L., Standish, C. D., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P. B., Milton, J. A., Zilhão, J., Alcolea-González, J. J., Cantalejo-Duarte, P., Collado, H., de Balbín, R., Lorblanchet, M., Ramos-Muñoz, J., Weniger, G.-C., & Pike, A. W. G. (2018). Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 362(6411).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, M. A., & Kaplan, L. (2012). The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Manzini, R. (Ed.). (2012). Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain: Advanced Models, Tools and Applications for Storage Systems. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Copie, A., Fortiş, T.-F., & Munteanu, V. I. (2013). Data Security Perspectives in the Framework of Cloud Governance. In I. Caragiannis, M. Alexander, R. M. Badia, M. Cannataro, A. Costan, M. Danelutto, F. Desprez, B. Krammer, J. Sahuquillo, S. L. Scott, & J. Weidendorfer (Eds.), Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops: BDMC, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Rhodes Islands, Greece, August 27-31, 2012. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 24–33). 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 Journal of Land Use Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, December 27). Plans Are Under Way To Contact Any Aliens Around Nearby Stars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/plans-are-under-way-to-contact-any-aliens-around-nearby-stars/

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. (2015). Internet Management: Structured Evaluation Could Help Assess Proposed Transition of Key Domain Name and Other Technical Functions (GAO-15-642). 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

Bornmann, J. W. (2009). Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Eldred, S. M., & Eligon, J. (2016, May 11). Doctor Saw Prince a Day Before His Death. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perez, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Perez, 2012; Silphaduang & Noga, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Silphaduang & Noga, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Land Use Science
Abbreviation	J. Land Use Sci.
ISSN (print)	1747-423X
ISSN (online)	1747-4248
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development