How to format your references using the The Urban Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Urban Review. 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

Montgomery, D. R. (2008). Geology. Dreams of natural streams. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5861), 291–292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moran, N. A., & Jarvik, T. (2010). Lateral transfer of genes from fungi underlies carotenoid production in aphids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 624–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garner, E. C., Campbell, C. S., & Mullins, R. D. (2004). Dynamic instability in a DNA-segregating prokaryotic actin homolog. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 1021–1025.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sturm, A., Amino, R., van de Sand, C., Regen, T., Retzlaff, S., Rennenberg, A., et al. (2006). Manipulation of host hepatocytes by the malaria parasite for delivery into liver sinusoids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5791), 1287–1290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Janke, S. J., & Tinsley, F. C. (2005). Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wiak, S., Krawczyk, A., & Dolezel, I. (Eds.). (2008). Intelligent Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics (Vol. 119). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, C.-F., Lee, J., Chang, J.-R., & Tai, T. (2016). Probability Concepts and Their Analysis. In J. Lee, J.-R. Chang, & T. Tai (Eds.), Essentials of Excel, Excel VBA, SAS and Minitab for Statistical and Financial Analyses (pp. 119–144). Cham: 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 The Urban Review.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, May 22). NASA Confirms Emergency Spacewalk After Key Equipment Failure On The ISS. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-confirms-emergency-spacewalk-after-key-equipment-failure-on-the-iss/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2006). Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Chinese Version) (No. GAO-06-950). 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

Morrow, S. T. (2012). Coboundary theorems for collections of random variables with moment conditions (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, M. (1993, June 6). Clinton Myth of Nonideological Politics Stumbles. New York Times, p. 126.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery 2008; Moran and Jarvik 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moran and Jarvik 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sturm et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Urban Review
Abbreviation	Urban Rev.
ISSN (print)	0042-0972
ISSN (online)	1573-1960
Scope	Urban Studies