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

Shen MM (2015) Cancer: The complex seeds of metastasis. Nature 520:298–299

A journal article with 2 authors

Poucet B, Sargolini F (2013) Neuroscience. A trace of your place. Science 340:35–36

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang Y, Dong Y, Chawla NV (2014) Predicting node degree centrality with the node prominence profile. Sci Rep 4:7236

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rosales T, Nie Z, Kapoor V, et al (2013) Partition of Myc into immobile vs. mobile complexes within nuclei. Sci Rep 3:1953

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H (2016) Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (eds) (2012) The Greek Language in the Digital Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hepburn HR, Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O (2014) Intraspecific and Interspecific Comb-Building. In: Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O (eds) Honeybee Nests: Composition, Structure, Function. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–78

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 (2015) Type 2 Diabetes Might Be Caused By Your Bacteria. 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 (1981) HHS Ability To Effectively Implement Incentive Funding for State Information Systems in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program. 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

Polk RL (2015) Examining students with disabilities in a linked learning pathway. 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

Poems SVS, PROSE OF PAUL CELAN. Translated by John Felstiner. (Norton, $17.95.) This collection of work by one of the greatest European poets of the postwar period is translated by the author of the 1995 biography ’ ’Paul Celan: Poet, et al (2001) New & Noteworthy Paperbacks. New York Times 716

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Poucet and Sargolini 2013; Shen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Poucet and Sargolini 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rosales 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