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

Hoag, H. (2003). Atlantic cod meet icy death. Nature, 422(6934), 792.

A journal article with 2 authors

Audétat, A., & Keppler, H. (2004). Viscosity of fluids in subduction zones. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5657), 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., & Baker, C. H. (2006). Molecular virology: was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature, 440(7088), E9; discussion E9-10.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tanaka, S., Sugiura, T., Yamashita, S., Dohi, Y., Kimura, G., & Ohte, N. (2014). Differential response of central blood pressure to isometric and isotonic exercises. Scientific reports, 4, 5439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., & Gervásio, H. (2012). Design of Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Puzyn, T., Leszczynski, J., & Cronin, M. T. (Eds.). (2010). Recent Advances in QSAR Studies: Methods and Applications (Vol. 8). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanyu, T. (2015). Challenge of Nonvolatile Logic LSI Using MTJ-Based Logic-in-Memory Architecture. In W. Zhao & G. Prenat (Eds.), Spintronics-based Computing (pp. 159–177). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2016, May 12). Bizarre New Hammerhead Marine Reptile Discovered In Triassic China. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-hammerhead-reptile-discovered-triassic-china/. 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. (2002). National Airspace System: FAA’s Approach to Its New Communications System Appears Prudent, but Challenges Remain (No. GAO-02-710). 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

Choi, Y.-J. (2003). Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, 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

Vecsey, G. (2014, July 9). U.S. Program Can Take Heart in Germany’s Win. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Audétat and Keppler 2004; Hoag 2003).

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

Two authors: (Audétat and Keppler 2004)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al. 2014)

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