How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lewis, R., 2008. A career at the museum. Nature 451, 218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pauluis, O., Dias, J., 2012. Satellite estimates of precipitation-induced dissipation in the atmosphere. Science 335, 953–956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farkas, I., Helbing, D., Vicsek, T., 2002. Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature 419, 131–132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kong, X.Y., Ding, Y., Yang, R., Wang, Z.L., 2004. Single-crystal nanorings formed by epitaxial self-coiling of polar nanobelts. Science 303, 1348–1351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar, S.S., Parameshwaran, N., Phoha, V.V., Balakrishnan, N., Okoye, C.D., 2010. Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gunsel, B., Jain, A.K., Tekalp, A.M., Sankur, B. (Eds.), 2006. Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security: International Workshop, MRCS 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, September 11-13, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kornfilt, J., 2009. DOM and Two Types of DSM in Turkish, in: Hoop, H. de, Swart, P. de (Eds.), Differential Subject Marking, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 79–111.

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 Environmental Economics and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Buzz Aldrin Describes His Encounter With A “UFO” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/buzz-aldrin-describes-his-encounter-ufo/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Problems and Outlook of Small Private Liberal Arts Colleges (No. HRD-78-91). 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

Simsic, G., 2012. Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Rojas, R., 2017. During Rikers Upheaval, the ‘Prettiest Village in Maine’ Beckoned. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis, 2008; Pauluis and Dias, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pauluis and Dias, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kong et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Econ. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0095-0696
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law