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

Sackett, C. A. (2014). Quantum physics: An atomic SQUID. Nature, 505(7482), 166–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgani, S., & Guzzo, L. (2001). X-ray clusters of galaxies as tracers of structure in the Universe. Nature, 409(6816), 39–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan, K., Sadanand, A., & Davachi, L. (2012). Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6093), 485–487.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chiarucci, R., Madeo, D., Loffredo, M. I., Castellani, E., Santarcangelo, E. L., & Mocenni, C. (2014). Cross-evidence for hypnotic susceptibility through nonlinear measures on EEGs of non-hypnotized subjects. Scientific Reports, 4, 5610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sabol, S. (2016). Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rousseau, C. (2009). Mathématiques et Technologie (Y. Saint-Aubin, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Perelman, Y., & Ginosar, R. (2008). NPR03: Mixed-Signal Integrated Front-End for Neuronal Recording. In R. Ginosar (Ed.), The NeuroProcessor: An Integrated Interface to Biological Neural Networks (pp. 39–67). Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, April 26). Whole Brain Use Reduces Fear. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1977). Learning Disabilities: The Link to Delinquency Should Be Determined, but Schools Should Do More Now (GGD-76-97). 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

Gleason, R. (2013). Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Chapman, M. M., & Maynard, M. (2010, May 7). Thousands Line Up at Ballpark For Farewell to Voice of Tigers. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sackett, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Borgani & Guzzo, 2001; Sackett, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Borgani & Guzzo, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chiarucci et al., 2014)

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