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

Blobel, G., 2008. Obituary: George Emil Palade (1912-2008). Nature 456, 52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Colburn, K.A., Johnson, P.R.S., 2003. Public health. Air pollution concerns not changed by S-PLUS flaw. Science 299, 665–666.

A journal article with 3 authors

Udem, T., Holzwarth, R., Hänsch, T.W., 2002. Optical frequency metrology. Nature 416, 233–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Burresi, M., Cortese, L., Pattelli, L., Kolle, M., Vukusic, P., Wiersma, D.S., Steiner, U., Vignolini, S., 2014. Bright-white beetle scales optimise multiple scattering of light. Sci. Rep. 4, 6075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, P., Kempner, M., 2015. 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Atluri, V., Diaz, C. (Eds.), 2011. Computer Security – ESORICS 2011: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14,2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Koshmanenko, V., Dudkin, M., 2016. Singular Quadratic Forms, in: Dudkin, M. (Ed.), The Method of Rigged Spaces in Singular Perturbation Theory of Self-Adjoint Operators, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 73–90.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Have Fossil Fuels Officially Lost to Renewables? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/have-fossil-fuels-officially-lost-renewables/ (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, 1996. Programs for Land-Grant Schools (No. HEHS-96-91R). 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

White, J., 2014. Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: A grant proposal (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

Kelly, M., 1993. Saint Hillary. New York Times 622.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blobel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Blobel, 2008; Colburn and Johnson, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Colburn and Johnson, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Burresi et al., 2014)

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