How to format your references using the Review of Regional Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Regional Research. 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

Cripton PA (2013) Perspective: Protecting the neck. Nature 503:S13

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeston J, Coontz R (2009) Industrial chemistry. Chemistry writ large. Introduction. Science 325:691

A journal article with 3 authors

Vais H, Foskett JK, Mak D-OD (2011) InsP3R channel gating altered by clustering? Nature 478:E1-2; discussion E2-3

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang C-M, Genc A, Cheng H, et al (2014) In-situ TEM visualization of vacancy injection and chemical partition during oxidation of Ni-Cr nanoparticles. Sci Rep 4:3683

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver H, Cawson P, Gorin S, Walker S (2009) Safeguarding Children. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Behnke R, Mortimore M (eds) (2016) The End of Desertification?: Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Qureshi AH (2013) Distinguished Essay: Reflections on the Global Trading Order Twenty Years After Marrakesh: A Development Perspective. In: Herrmann C, Krajewski M, Terhechte JP (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93–114

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 Review of Regional Research.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) The US Will Lose $2 Trillion By 2030 Thanks To Man-Made Climate Change. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-lose-2-trillion-2030-thanks-man-made-climate-change/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2016) Amtrak: Better Reporting, Planning, and Improved Financial Information Could Enhance Decision Making. 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

Toosi F (2017) Decision Analysis Techniques for Adult Learners: Application to Leadership. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Hiltner S, Lehman S (2017) Finding an Expansive View of a Forgotten People in Niger. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cripton 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Yeston and Coontz 2009; Cripton 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yeston and Coontz 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Regional Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Reg. Res.
ISSN (print)	0173-7600
ISSN (online)	1613-9836
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development