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

Smaglik P. 2003. Thinking ahead. Nature. 423(6939):565

A journal article with 2 authors

Shelke SA, Piccirilli JA. 2014. Origins of life: RNA made in its own mirror image. Nature. 515(7527):347–48

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiser J, Chiu C, Weliky M. 2004. Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision. Nature. 431(7008):573–78

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harper KL, Sosa MS, Entenberg D, Hosseini H, Cheung JF, et al. 2018. Corrigendum: Mechanism of early dissemination and metastasis in Her2+ mammary cancer. Nature. 553(7688):366

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros TF. 2010. Colloids in Paints. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Grehn F, Stamper R, eds. 2009. Glaucoma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Imono M, Yoshimura E, Tsuchiya S, Watabe H. 2015. Method of Embodying the Newspaper Headlines by Using Words and Phrases in the Article. In Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice, ed JW Tweedale, LC Jain, J Watada, RJ Howlett, pp. 51–63. 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 Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Why Do Women Have Orgasms? IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1986. Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies. RCED-86-100, 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

Alnuaimi AN. 2017. The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Arizona

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

(nyt) SK. 2003. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Soldier Kills 4 Comrades, Then Himself. New York Times, Feb. 21, p. A12

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

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