Notes:
(1) All unpublished material (such as that by NGOs or as conference proceedings) must have a full web address or other contact details.
(2) Personal communications or unobtainable material must not be included in the references but may be mentioned in the text or as a footnote.
(3) Start and end page numbers must be supplied for all journal articles or book chapters. A page number must also be given for newspaper articles.
(4) All authors must be given; please do not use 'et al' in the references.
(5) All acronyms used as a citation must also be given in full in the references.

Journal or newspaper articles

Daalder R, 2010, "IJburg: te gast in de natuur" Groen 66(5) 39–46

Parlow J, 2008, "Beer-loving Brazilians adapt to the 'dry law' " Washington Post 23 December, page A08

Patton D, Marlow S, 2011, "University technology business incubators: helping new entrepreneurial firms to learn to grow" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 29 911–926

The Guardian 2009, "Barack Obama's Cairo speech: live", 4 June, http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/04/obama-s-cairo-speech

Xu C, 2011, "The fundamental institutions of China's reforms and development" Journal of Economic Literature (forthcoming)

Books or book chapters

Bartlett C A, Ghoshal D, 2002 Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution 2nd edition (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA)

Coenen F, Menkveld M, 2003, "The role of local authorities in a transition towards a climate neutral society", in Global Warming and Social Innovation: The Challenge of a Climate Neutral Society Eds M T J Kok, W J V Vermeulen, A P C Faaij, D de Jager (Earthscan, London) pp 107–125

Fisher F, 2003 Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices (Oxford University Press, Oxford)

Ostrom E, 1999, "Institutional rational choice: an assessment of the institutional analysis and development framework", in Theories of Public Policy Ed. P A Sabatier (Westview Press, Oxford) pp 35–71

Major documents and PhD theses

Alvanides S, 2000 Zone Design Methods for Application in Human Geography PhD thesis, School of Geography, University of Leeds

CLG, 2008 Communities in Control: Real People, Real Power Communities and Local Government, London

Reports, conference papers, working papers, discussion papers, masters' theses

ADB, no date, "Road Safety Report CR2: Cambodia", Asian Development Bank, Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Road Safety Program, Manila

Bryden J M, Dawe S P, 1998, "Development strategies for remote rural regions: what do we know so far?", keynote paper for the OECDInternational Conference on remote rural areas: developing through natural and cultural assets, Albarracin, Spain, 5–6 November; copy from J M Bryden, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oslo

CGRS, 2009, "Make roads safe: a decade of action for road safety", Commission for Global Road Safety, London, http://www.fiafoundation.org/commissionforglobalroadsafety

Ingram H, Leajno R, 2007, "Why institutions resist incorporating climate change scenarios into agency practice", paper presented at the International Symposium on New Directions in Urban Water Management, 1–7 November, http://www.unesco.org/water/water

Fisman R, Miguel E, 2006, "Cultures of corruption: evidence from diplomatic parking tickets", WP 12312, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

McCallum C, 1994, "The effects of Quebec's Agricultural Preservation Law on agricultural and rural land use near Sherbrooke", Master's thesis, Department of Geography, Carleton University, Ottawa

Ward N, Atterton J, Tae-Yeon K, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Thompson N, 2005, "Universities, the knowledge economy and the 'neo-endogenous rural development' ", DP 1, Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cre/publish/discussionpapers/pdfs/discussionpaper1.pdf

WHO, World Health Organization, Geneva

       2004, "World report on road traffic injury prevention"

       2009, "Global status report on road safety: time for action"

Governmental and legal documents

DETR, 1998 Modern Local Government: In Touch with the People Cm 4014, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (The Stationery Office, London)

EC, 2002, "Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications)" Official Journal of the European Communities L201 37–47, 31 July (European Commission, Brussels)

Local Government Act, 2000 Public General Acts—Elizabeth II chapter 22 (The Stationery Office, London)

Macmillan H, 1931 Report of the Committee on Finance and Industry Cmd 3897 (HMSO, London)

Scarman, 1986 The Brixton Disorders 10–12 April 1981 Cmnd 8427 (HMSO, London)

US House of Representatives, 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act H.R. 6, 110th Congress

Note: Legal cases best cited in a footnote, eg:

Gavalik v Continental Can Co. (No. 81-1519 [W.D.Pa Sept. 9, 1985]) reversed (812.F.2d 834 [3rd Circ. 1987]) cert. denied (108.S.Cr.495 [1987])