How to format your references using the Annual Review of Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Resource Economics. 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

Glazebrook K. 2009. Galaxy formation: Too small to ignore. Nature. 460(7256):694–95

A journal article with 2 authors

Dietrich WE, Perron JT. 2006. The search for a topographic signature of life. Nature. 439(7075):411–18

A journal article with 3 authors

Jakosky BM, Haberle RM, Arvidson RE. 2005. Planetary science. The changing picture of volatiles and climate on Mars. Science. 310(5753):1439–40

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li X, Monks B, Ge Q, Birnbaum MJ. 2007. Akt/PKB regulates hepatic metabolism by directly inhibiting PGC-1alpha transcription coactivator. Nature. 447(7147):1012–16

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald H, Robert D. G. 2006. Longitudinal Data Analysis: Hedeker/Longitudinal. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chaki R, Saeed K, Choudhury S, Chaki N, eds. 2015. Applied Computation and Security Systems: Volume One, Vol. 304. New Delhi: Springer India

A chapter in an edited book

Elsenbroich C. 2014. It Takes Two to Tango: We-Intentionality and the Dynamics of Social Norms. In The Complexity of Social Norms, eds. M Xenitidou, B Edmonds, pp. 81–103. 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 Resource Economics.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Nectar Bat With Insanely Long Tongue Found in Bolivia. 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. 1990. Job Training Partnership Act: Information on Set-Aside Funding for Assistance to Older Workers. HRD-90-59FS, 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

Keohane MF. 2010. Virtual team communication: Perceptions and experiences influencing the use of videoconferencing technology. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Phoenix

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

Mcbride K. 2015. When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story. New York Times, June 9, , p. A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glazebrook 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dietrich & Perron 2006; Glazebrook 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dietrich & Perron 2006)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Resource Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Resour. Economics
ISSN (print)	1941-1340
ISSN (online)	1941-1359
Scope	Economics and Econometrics