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

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

Wilson EO (2005) Environment: early ant plagues in the New World. Nature 433:32

A journal article with 2 authors

Towbin JA, Bowles NE (2002) The failing heart. Nature 415:227–233

A journal article with 3 authors

Chu R, Reczek D, Brondyk W (2014) Capture-stabilize approach for membrane protein SPR assays. Sci Rep 4:7360

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hu Q-H, Xie Z-Q, Wang X-M, et al (2013) Levoglucosan indicates high levels of biomass burning aerosols over oceans from the Arctic to Antarctic. Sci Rep 3:3119

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM (2011) Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Peris-Ortiz M, Álvarez-García J (eds) (2014) Action-Based Quality Management: Strategy and Tools for Continuous Improvement. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Stefanov H, Jansen S, Batenburg R, et al (2012) How to Do Successful Chargeback for Cloud Services. In: Vanmechelen K, Altmann J, Rana OF (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–75

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 Economics and Policy Studies.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Could Squid And Chips Become The New National Dish Of Great Britain? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-squid-and-chips-become-the-new-national-dish-of-great-britain/. 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 (1977) Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75. 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

Small CR (2013) An investigation on the effect(s) of different modes of intervention for weight management on HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol production among United States veterans. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2004) Arts, Briefly; High Season for Russian Art in London Auctions. New York Times E4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilson 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Towbin and Bowles 2002; Wilson 2005).

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

Two authors: (Towbin and Bowles 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Abbreviation	Environ. Econ. Policy Stud.
ISSN (print)	1432-847X
ISSN (online)	1867-383X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law