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

Atran S. 2003. Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science. 299(5612):1534–39

A journal article with 2 authors

Annas GJ, Elias S. 2004. Politics, morals and embryos. Nature. 431(7004):19–20

A journal article with 3 authors

Esposito MS, Capelli P, Arber S. 2014. Brainstem nucleus MdV mediates skilled forelimb motor tasks. Nature. 508(7496):351–56

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lam H, Oh D-C, Cava F, Takacs CN, Clardy J, et al. 2009. D-amino acids govern stationary phase cell wall remodeling in bacteria. Science. 325(5947):1552–55

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop A. 2013. Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bhojwani SS. 2013. Plant Tissue Culture: An Introductory Text. New Delhi: Springer India

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt FR, Töppe E, Cremers D, Boykov Y. 2007. Efficient Shape Matching Via Graph Cuts. In Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2007, Ezhou, China, August 27-29, 2007. Proceedings, eds. AL Yuille, S-C Zhu, D Cremers, Y Wang, pp. 39–54. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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

Hale T. 2017. The World’s Oldest Cave Paintings Made From Dots Found In France. 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. 1978. The Management and Operation of the Runaway Youth Program Administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 105325, 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

Blackwell PK. 2017. Timbre Fantasy: An Analysis on Coloristic Choices in John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy. 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

Walsh MW. 2010. A Footnote Explains a Dispute Over Treasury’s Bailout Figures. New York Times, Nov. 17, , p. B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atran 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Annas & Elias 2004; Atran 2003).

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

Two authors: (Annas & Elias 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lam et al. 2009)

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