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

Smith FA (2012) Evolution. Some like it hot. Science 335:924–925

A journal article with 2 authors

Seibel BA, Walsh PJ (2001) Carbon cycle. Potential impacts of CO2 injection on deep-sea biota. Science 294:319–320

A journal article with 3 authors

Martens S, Kozlov MM, McMahon HT (2007) How synaptotagmin promotes membrane fusion. Science 316:1205–1208

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rappas M, Schumacher J, Beuron F, et al (2005) Structural insights into the activity of enhancer-binding proteins. Science 307:1972–1975

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jepsen TC (2003) Distributed Storage Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England

An edited book

Wu T, Naidoo V (eds) (2016) International Marketing of Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng L, Wang J, Wu H, et al (2014) Flocking Behavior via Leader’s Backstepping on Nonholonomic Robot Group. In: Liu L, Zhu Q, Cheng L, et al. (eds) Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–115

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

Davis J (2017) Researchers Create A Stable Organism Containing Synthetic DNA That Can Replicate Indefinitely. In: IFLScience. 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 (2008) Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Systems Acquisition and the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. 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

Minick V (2010) Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF (2010) Superman’s Debut Comic Sells For $1 Million. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Seibel and Walsh 2001; Smith 2012).

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

Two authors: (Seibel and Walsh 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rappas et al. 2005)

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