How to format your references using the Urban Habitats citation style

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

Jaeger, N. I. 2001. Surface science. Bridging gaps and opening windows. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5535): 1601–1602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marler, J. R. and L. B. Goldstein. 2003. Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5640): 1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Y. O. Dudin and A. Kuzmich. 2013. Entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation. Nature 498(7455): 466–469.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chong, H. et al. 2013. Au25 clusters as electron-transfer catalysts induced the intramolecular cascade reaction of 2-nitrobenzonitrile. Scientific reports 3: 3214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiMarzio, J. F. 2016. Beginning Android® Programming with Android Studio. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seto, M. L. ed. 2013. Marine Robot Autonomy. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Henkel, M. and M. Pleimling. 2010. Local Scale-invariance I: z = 2. Pp. 221–290 in Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, ed. M. Pleimling. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Urban Habitats.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. True color of ancient sea creatures revealed by fossilized pigment. IFLScience. Retreived October 30, 2018, from the IFLScience Website: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/true-color-ancient-sea-creatures-revealed-fossilized-pigment/.

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. Information Technology: Agencies and OMB Should Strengthen Processes for Identifying and Overseeing High Risk Projects. 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

Bermudez, D. 2008. The effects of Hispanic parent-adolescent biculturalism disparity on male adolescent delinquency. Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: 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

Barnes, B. and C. Buckley. 2017. ‘La La Land’ Dominates With Record Wins. New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaeger 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jaeger 2001; Marler and Goldstein 2003).

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

Two authors: (Marler and Goldstein 2003)
Three authors: (Li, Dudin and Kuzmich 2013)
4 or more authors: (Chong et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Habitats
ISSN (online)	1541-7115
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