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

Dance, A. (2015). Micromanagement with light. Nature, 528(7581), 291–294.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerde, E., & Marder, M. (2001). Friction and fracture. Nature, 413(6853), 285–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldner, A., Herold, N., & Huber, M. (2014). Antarctic glaciation caused ocean circulation changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature, 511(7511), 574–577.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Heuer, D., Rejman Lipinski, A., Machuy, N., Karlas, A., Wehrens, A., Siedler, F., Brinkmann, V., & Meyer, T. F. (2009). Chlamydia causes fragmentation of the Golgi compartment to ensure reproduction. Nature, 457(7230), 731–735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mubarak, S. (2010). Construction Project Scheduling and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sardela, M. (Ed.). (2014). Practical Materials Characterization. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zachman, R. C. (2006). God Manifested in God’s Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition. In M. J. Cherry (Ed.), The death of metaphysics; the death of culture: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality (pp. 71–97). 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

Andrew, D. (2015, August 12). ENORMOUS Tiger Shark Caught Off Australian Coast. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/enormous-tiger-shark-caught-australian-coast/

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. (1995). International Aviation: DOT Needs Better Data for Monitoring and Decisionmaking (T-RCED-95-240). 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

Baruth, L. E. (2010). Joan Tower and the clarinet: An examination of her compositional style and a performer’s guide to “RAIN WAVES” (1997) and “A GIFT” (2007) [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Powell, K. (2017, April 19). He’s Got It From Here. New York Times, M296.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dance, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dance, 2015; Gerde & Marder, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Gerde & Marder, 2001)
Three authors: (Goldner et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Heuer et al., 2009)

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

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