How to format your references using the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. 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

Goldston, D. (2009). Climate future. Nature, 459(7247), 628.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi, K., & Ishiwata, S. (2001). Nucleotide-dependent single- to double-headed binding of kinesin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5504), 667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Djuranovic, S., Nahvi, A., & Green, R. (2012). miRNA-mediated gene silencing by translational repression followed by mRNA deadenylation and decay. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6078), 237–240.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pors, A., Albrektsen, O., Radko, I. P., & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. (2013). Gap plasmon-based metasurfaces for total control of reflected light. Scientific Reports, 3, 2155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adámek, J. (1991). Foundations of Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee, R. (Ed.). (2015). Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (Vol. 578). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Marques, S. P. C., & Creus, G. J. (2012). Laplace Transform Solutions. In G. J. Creus (Ed.), Computational Viscoelasticity (pp. 37–49). 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 Natural Resources Policy Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 9). How the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Changed the Face of Science. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-2011-japan-tsunami-changed-face-science/

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. (2000). Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects (T-RCED-00-104). 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

Robertson-Tessi, M. (2010). Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, February 17). Puerto Rico Debt Bill Takes Step. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2009; Kawaguchi & Ishiwata, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi & Ishiwata, 2001)
Three authors: (Djuranovic et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Pors et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
Abbreviation	J. Nat. Resour. Pol. Res.
ISSN (print)	1939-0459
ISSN (online)	1939-0467
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development