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

Chiorescu I (2006) Physics. Microwave cooling of an artificial atom. Science 314:1549–1550

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry DP, Söderberg P (2013) Lethal aggression in mobile forager bands and implications for the origins of war. Science 341:270–273

A journal article with 3 authors

Borys NJ, Shafran E, Lupton JM (2013) Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci Rep 3:2090

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Román-Leshkov Y, Barrett CJ, Liu ZY, Dumesic JA (2007) Production of dimethylfuran for liquid fuels from biomass-derived carbohydrates. Nature 447:982–985

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith C, Meeking D (2013) How to Succeed at the Medical Interview. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chandrappa R (2011) Coping with Climate Change: Principles and Asian Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Seffah A, Metzker E (2009) Usability Engineering Integration as an Adoption Problem. In: Seffah A, Metzker E (eds) Adoption-centric Usability Engineering: Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering. Springer, London, pp 47–57

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) Expert Committee Finds Genetically Engineered Crops Are As Safe To Eat As Conventionally Bred Plants. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/expert-committee-finds-ge-crops-are-safe-eat-conventionally-bred-plants/. 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 (1997) Deferred Maintenance: Reporting Requirements and Identified Issues. 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

Navolio LM (2004) The process of individuation as embodied in symbols, images, and alchemical motifs: A psychological study based on twelve paintings by Remedios Varo. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Court Rejects Charges Against President. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiorescu 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chiorescu 2006; Fry and Söderberg 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fry and Söderberg 2013)
Three or more authors: (Román-Leshkov et al. 2007)

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

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