How to format your references using the Environmental and Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental and 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

Maiani L (2010) Obituary: Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010). Nature 467:284

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun Y, Xia Y (2002) Shape-controlled synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles. Science 298:2176–2179

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis G, Rosakis AJ, Ravichandran G (2006) Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science 313:1765–1768

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prather JF, Peters S, Nowicki S, Mooney R (2008) Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. Nature 451:305–310

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Janke SJ, Tinsley FC (2005) Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Shiozawa Y (2008) Artificial Market Experiments with the U-Mart System. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Kutikhin A, Brusina E, Yuzhalin AE (2013) The Role of Enteroviruses, Parvovirus B19, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and Measles Virus in Atherosclerosis and Related Diseases. In: Brusina E, Yuzhalin AE (eds) Viruses and Atherosclerosis. Springer, New York, NY, pp 35–47

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 Environmental and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Lexus Claims They’ve Created a Hoverboard. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lexus-claims-theyve-created-impressive-hoverboard/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) Department of Education’s Update of the State and Other Tax Allowance for Student Aid Award Year 2005-2006. 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

Graeter CJ (2012) Longitudinal Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subjects in the American Clinical Trial of Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Saslow L (2007) Roosevelt Seeking Schools Superintendent. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maiani 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Sun and Xia 2002; Maiani 2010).

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

Two authors: (Sun and Xia 2002)
Three or more authors: (Prather et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Resource Economics
Abbreviation	Environ. Resour. Econ. (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0924-6460
ISSN (online)	1573-1502
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Aerospace Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law