How to format your references using the Annual Review of Environment and Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Cibelli J. 2007. Developmental biology. A decade of cloning mystique. Science. 316(5827):990–92

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennedy D, Norman C. 2005. What don’t we know? Science. 309(5731):75

A journal article with 3 authors

Shubin NH, Daeschler EB, Jenkins FA Jr. 2006. The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. Nature. 440(7085):764–71

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang Y, Ono S, Onose Y, Gu G, Ando Y, et al. 2003. Dependence of upper critical field and pairing strength on doping in cuprates. Science. 299(5603):86–89

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H. 2015. Project Management 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

Bai Z. 2010. Spectral Analysis of Large Dimensional Random Matrices. New York, NY: Springer. XVI, 552 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lasaygues P, Lefebvre J-P, Guillermin R, Kaftandjian V, Berteau J-P, et al. 2012. Advanced Ultrasonic Tomograph of Children’s Bones. In Acoustical Imaging: Volume 31, ed A Nowicki, J Litniewski, T Kujawska, pp. 31–38. 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 Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Blog post

Davis J. 2017. Taliban Issue Unusual Statement Encouraging Afghans To Plant Trees. IFLScience

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. 2010. Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. GAO-11-21, 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

Gruhl DK. 2010. Santa Rosa Adopt-A-Grandparent Plus program: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Rosenberg E, Southall A. 2016. De Blasio Calls Police Shooting ‘Unacceptable.’ New York Times, Oct. 19, p. A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.
ISSN (print)	1543-5938
ISSN (online)	1545-2050
Scope	General Environmental Science