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

Dalcanton JJ (2009) 18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope. Nature 457:41–50

A journal article with 2 authors

Metzger CH, Karrai K (2004) Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature 432:1002–1005

A journal article with 3 authors

Borsa AA, Agnew DC, Cayan DR (2014) Remote Hydrology. Ongoing drought-induced uplift in the western United States. Science 345:1587–1590

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Affolder R, Rizzo I, Burgess C, et al (2007) A prescription for drug delivery. Nature 449:170–172

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jay SA (2006) High Voltage Electricity Installations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, England

An edited book

Altenbach H, Sadowski T (eds) (2015) Failure and Damage Analysis of Advanced Materials, 1st edn. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

McGonagle JJ, Vella CM (2012) Preparing Yourself. In: Vella CM (ed) Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence. Springer, London, pp 35–39

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) PhD Student Finds Two Massive Stars With Magnetic Fields In A Binary System. 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 (1976) Need To Resolve Safety Questions on Saccharin. 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

Wilkinson B (2017) You Got to Pray Just to Make It Today: The Relationship between Disclosure Disconnects, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment among Atheistic Employees. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Cooper M (2017) The Storming of Mount Salzburg. New York Times AR8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalcanton 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Metzger and Karrai 2004; Dalcanton 2009).

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

Two authors: (Metzger and Karrai 2004)
Three or more authors: (Affolder et al. 2007)

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