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

Feringa, B. L. (2001). Chemistry. A new twist on chirality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5524), 2021–2022.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, A. G., & Ferguson, I. J. (2001). The electric Moho. Nature, 409(6818), 331–333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moldoveanu, T., Gehring, K., & Green, D. R. (2008). Concerted multi-pronged attack by calpastatin to occlude the catalytic cleft of heterodimeric calpains. Nature, 456(7220), 404–408.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Onishi, Y., Ueha, T., Kawamoto, T., Hara, H., Toda, M., Harada, R., et al. (2014). Regulation of mitochondrial proliferation by PGC-1α induces cellular apoptosis in musculoskeletal malignancies. Scientific reports, 4, 3916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higman, B. W. (2011). How Food Made History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nicola, R. D. (Ed.). (2007). Programming Languages and Systems: 16th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2007, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practics of Software, ETAPS 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007. Proceedings (Vol. 4421). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casas, J., Ferrer, J. L., Garcia, D., Perarnau, J., & Torday, A. (2010). Traffic Simulation with Aimsun. In J. Barceló (Ed.), Fundamentals of Traffic Simulation (pp. 173–232). New York, NY: 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

Davis, J. (2015, May 14). US Beekeepers Lost 40% Of Bees Last Year Alone. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1988). Airline Scheduling: Airline Practices in Establishing and Maintaining Connecting Times (No. RCED-88-207). 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

Zeedick, D. M. (2010). The modified delphi method to analyze the application of instructional design theory to online graduate education (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, January 25). Sex, Drugs and Archie. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feringa 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Feringa 2001; Jones and Ferguson 2001).

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

Two authors: (Jones and Ferguson 2001)
Three or more authors: (Onishi 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