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

Couzin, I., 2007. Collective minds. Nature 445, 715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baudisch, A., Vaupel, J.W., 2012. Evolution. Getting to the root of aging. Science 338, 618–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim, J.H., Haule, K., Kotliar, G., 2007. Fluctuating valence in a correlated solid and the anomalous properties of delta-plutonium. Nature 446, 513–516.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

del Rio, A., Perez-Jimenez, R., Liu, R., Roca-Cusachs, P., Fernandez, J.M., Sheetz, M.P., 2009. Stretching single talin rod molecules activates vinculin binding. Science 323, 638–641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, A., Behle, B., Lischewski, D., Rein, W., 2002. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Schill, W.-B., Comhaire, F., Hargreave, T.B. (Eds.), 2006. Andrology for the Clinician. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cohen, J.A., Rae-Grant, A., 2010. Disease-modifying therapy, in: Rae-Grant, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Multiple Sclerosis. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, pp. 29–42.

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. Scientists Discover Evidence of Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-discover-evidence-mercury’s-explosive-volcanic-history/ (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, 2016. DOT Discretionary Grants: Problems with Hurricane Sandy Transit Grant Selection Process Highlight the Need for Additional Accountability (No. GAO-17-20). 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

Singh, K.K., 2015. An 8-PSK receiver using LNA & SRO: Design and mathematical analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Koblin, J., 2016. Carol Burnett to Star, Amy Poehler to Produce. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Couzin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baudisch and Vaupel, 2012; Couzin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Baudisch and Vaupel, 2012)
Three or more authors: (del Rio et al., 2009)

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