How to format your references using the Land Use Policy citation style

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

Prelec, D., 2004. A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data. Science 306, 462–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Partridge, L., Gems, D., 2002. A lethal side-effect. Nature 418, 921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reichman, O.J., Jones, M.B., Schildhauer, M.P., 2011. Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science 331, 703–705.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, C.-T., Lu, J.-C., Bai, J., Chang, P.Y., Martin, T.F.J., Chapman, E.R., Jackson, M.B., 2003. Different domains of synaptotagmin control the choice between kiss-and-run and full fusion. Nature 424, 943–947.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, M.A., Segelnick, S.L., Insler, J.S., Kramer, S., 2015. The Dentist’s Quick Guide to Medical Conditions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bräse, S. (Ed.), 2007. Combinatorial Chemistry on Solid Supports, Topics in Current Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirao, T., Moriuchi, T., Groß, A., 2015. Bioconjugates to Induce Chirality Organization, in: Hirao, T. (Ed.), Functionalized Redox Systems: Synthetic Reactions and Design of π- and Bio-Conjugates. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 111–150.

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 Land Use Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Why Did Ichthyosaurs Go Extinct? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Additional Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services (No. T-AIMD-99-143). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Holloway, L.R., 2013. Synthesis and investigation of novel dinitrosyl-Iron complexes of chelated Bis-phosphine ligands: Potential nitric oxide delivery compounds (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Steinhauer, J., Thrush, G., Pear, R., 2017. How a Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prelec, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Partridge and Gems, 2002; Prelec, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Partridge and Gems, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Land Use Policy
Abbreviation	Land use policy
ISSN (print)	0264-8377
Scope	Forestry Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Geography, Planning and Development