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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. 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

Thamdrup, Bo. 2007. “Geochemistry. New Players in an Ancient Cycle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5844): 1508–1509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vogt, Nina, and Claude Desplan. 2010. “Developmental Biology. Flipping the Light Switch.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6003): 454–455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dame, Remus T., Maarten C. Noom, and Gijs J. L. Wuite. 2006. “Bacterial Chromatin Organization by H-NS Protein Unravelled Using Dual DNA Manipulation.” Nature 444 (7117): 387–390.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sun, Yu, Rich Olson, Michelle Horning, Neali Armstrong, Mark Mayer, and Eric Gouaux. 2002. “Mechanism of Glutamate Receptor Desensitization.” Nature 417 (6886): 245–253.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius, Vigirdas. 2011. Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Frolov, Konstantin V., and Gregory B. Baecher, eds. 2006. Protection of Civilian Infrastructure from Acts of Terrorism. NATO Security through Science Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Haiyan, Chunyuan Zhang, Li Li, and Ming Pang. 2006. “A Streaming Implementation of Transform and Quantization in H.264.” In High Performance Computing and Communications: Second International Conference, HPCC 2006, Munich, Germany, September 13-15, 2006. Proceedings, edited by Michael Gerndt and Dieter Kranzlmüller, 41–50. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “US Government Nips All Meaningful Cannabis Research In The Bud, Say Scientists.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-government-nips-all-meaningful-cannabis-research-bud-say-scientists/.

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. 1993. State of the Airline Industry: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. T-RCED-93-21. 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

Brient, Robin. 2009. “Performance Considerations for Philippe Gaubert’s ‘Madrigal.’” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. JOHN KELLY, Erin. 1998. “Navy Yard, Recommissioned.” New York Times, July 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thamdrup 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Thamdrup 2007; Vogt and Desplan 2010).

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

Two authors: (Vogt and Desplan 2010)
Three authors: (Dame, Noom, and Wuite 2006)
4 or more authors: (Sun et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
Abbreviation	J. Environ. Econ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	2160-6544
ISSN (online)	2160-6552
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