How to format your references using the International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and 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

Mellars, P. (2006). Going east: new genetic and archaeological perspectives on the modern human colonization of Eurasia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 796–800.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sacco, T., & Sacchetti, B. (2010). Role of secondary sensory cortices in emotional memory storage and retrieval in rats. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5992), 649–656.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinez-Perez, E., Shaw, P., & Moore, G. (2001). The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association. Nature, 411(6834), 204–207.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ichinose, G., Saito, M., Sayama, H., & Wilson, D. S. (2013). Adaptive long-range migration promotes cooperation under tempting conditions. Scientific reports, 3, 2509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, A. W. (2008). Economics, Real Estate and the Supply of Land. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Uchegbu, I. F., Schätzlein, A. G., Cheng, W. P., & Lalatsa, A. (Eds.). (2013). Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schönthaler, F., Vossen, G., Oberweis, A., & Karle, T. (2012). Areas of Application. In G. Vossen, A. Oberweis, & T. Karle (Eds.), Business Processes for Business Communities: Modeling Languages, Methods, Tools (pp. 137–173). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 15). DARPA Has Created Self-Guided, Mid-Flight Changing Bullets. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/darpa-has-created-self-guided-mid-flight-changing-bullets/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2016). Electronic Health Information: HHS Needs to Strengthen Security and Privacy Guidance and Oversight (No. GAO-16-771). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph, W. R. (2002). Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Paulson, M., & Gelles, D. (2017, July 3). Where’s My Wonka Bar? New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mellars 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Mellars 2006; Sacco and Sacchetti 2010).

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

Two authors: (Sacco and Sacchetti 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ichinose et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Environ. Agreements
ISSN (print)	1567-9764
ISSN (online)	1573-1553
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Law Political Science and International Relations