How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (JARE). 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

Triplett, W. 2000. “Astronomers Silenced in Star-Name Wars.” Nature 406(6795): 448.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Ee, R., and B.L. Anderson. 2001. “Motion Direction, Speed and Orientation in Binocular Matching.” Nature 410(6829): 690–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Våge, S., J.E. Storesund, and T.F. Thingstad. 2013. “SAR11 Viruses and Defensive Host Strains.” Nature 499(7459): E3-4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stecyk, J.A.W., K.-O. Stensløkken, A.P. Farrell, and G.E. Nilsson. 2004. “Maintained Cardiac Pumping in Anoxic Crucian Carp.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5693): 77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doerfler, W. 2007. Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Kalia, V.C., ed. 2015. Microbial Factories: Biofuels, Waste Treatment: Volume 1. 1st ed. 2015. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, C.P. 2015. “Higher Education Development in Taiwan.” In J.C. Shin, G.A. Postiglione, and F. Huang, eds. Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 89–103.

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 Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2016. “Island Foxes May Be The Least Genetically Variable Wild Animals.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Available online at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/island-foxes-may-be-least-genetically-variable-wild-animals/. [Accessed Oct. 30, 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. 1973. Improvements Needed in NASA’s Estimating and Reporting of Program Costs. 093832. 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

Aloe-Chase, S.T. 2008. “Family Member Perspectives on Collaboration: An Exploratory Study.” Doctoral dissertation. Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2013. “‘Spring’ Festival as Rite of Refreshment.” New York Times, March 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Triplett, 2000; van Ee and Anderson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (van Ee and Anderson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stecyk et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ISSN (print)	1068-5502
ISSN (online)	2327-8285
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