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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Resources 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Zasloff, M. (2002). Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms. Nature, 415(6870), 389–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanrieder, J., & Ewing, A. G. (2014). Spatial elucidation of spinal cord lipid- and metabolite- regulations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Scientific reports, 4, 5266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deroche-Gamonet, V., Belin, D., & Piazza, P. V. (2004). Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 1014–1017.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sunda, W., Kieber, D. J., Kiene, R. P., & Huntsman, S. (2002). An antioxidant function for DMSP and DMS in marine algae. Nature, 418(6895), 317–320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, A., & Dafydd, H. (2014). Key Notes on Plastic Surgery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barnes, I., & Rudziński, K. J. (Eds.). (2013). Disposal of Dangerous Chemicals in Urban Areas and Mega Cities: Role of Oxides and Acids of Nitrogen in Atmospheric Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y., & Su, Y. (2014). Silicon-Based Nanoagents for Cancer Therapy. In Y. Su (Ed.), Silicon Nano-biotechnology (pp. 75–91). 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 Natural Resources Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 29). Huge Trial Shows Early HIV Treatment Dramatically Improves Patient Outcome. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/huge-trial-shows-early-hiv-treatment-dramatically-improves-patient-outcome/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1975). Pilot Cities Program: Phaseout Needed Due To Limited National Benefits (No. GGD-75-16). 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

Warwick-Smith, K. M. (2017). Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1999, March 28). Master of Her Cub Den at 82. New York Times, p. 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zasloff 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hanrieder and Ewing 2014; Zasloff 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hanrieder and Ewing 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sunda et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Resources Research
Abbreviation	Nat. Resour. Res.
ISSN (print)	1520-7439
ISSN (online)	1573-8981
Scope	General Environmental Science