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

Vaux, D. L. (2012). Research methods: Know when your numbers are significant. Nature, 492(7428), 180–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., & Ma, X. L. (2013). Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Scientific reports, 3, 3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hellberg, M. E., Balch, D. P., & Roy, K. (2001). Climate-driven range expansion and morphological evolution in a marine gastropod. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1707–1710.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gimelbrant, A., Hutchinson, J. N., Thompson, B. R., & Chess, A. (2007). Widespread monoallelic expression on human autosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1136–1140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule, J. A., & Mills, K. (2012). Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pardo, T. A. S., Branco, A., Klautau, A., Vieira, R., & Lima, V. L. S. de (Eds.). (2010). Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 9th International Conference, PROPOR 2010, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6001). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bronstein, A. M., Bronstein, M. M., & Kimmel, R. (2006). Facetoface: An Isometric Model for Facial Animation. In F. J. Perales & R. B. Fisher (Eds.), Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 4th International Conference, AMDO 2006, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 11-14, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 38–47). 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

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 15). Where Are The Closest Black Holes To Earth? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/where-are-the-closest-black-holes-to-earth/. 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. (1981). Online Access to Legislative Information (No. 115068). 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

Verdi, K. C. (2017). What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Kelly, C. (2009, February 8). Skate, Sure, But Don’t Expect A Zamboni. New York Times, p. LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vaux 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Ma 2013; Vaux 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gimelbrant et al. 2007)

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