How to format your references using the Resource and Energy Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resource and Energy Economics. 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

Wible, B., 2012. Rio+20. Science for sustainable development. Science 336, 1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Czyzewski, B.K., Wang, D.-N., 2012. Identification and characterization of a bacterial hydrosulphide ion channel. Nature 483, 494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heywood, K.J., Naveira Garabato, A.C., Stevens, D.P., 2002. High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean. Nature 415, 1011–1014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, K.-C., Wu, W.-W., Liao, C.-N., Chen, L.-J., Tu, K.N., 2008. Observation of atomic diffusion at twin-modified grain boundaries in copper. Science 321, 1066–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hong, G., 2015. Causality in a Social World. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sherman, C.H., 2007. Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound, Monograph Series in Underwater Acoustics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Agneessens, F., Koskinen, J., 2016. Modeling Individual Outcomes Using a Multilevel Social Influence (MSI) Model: Individual Versus Team Effects of Trust on Job Satisfaction in an Organisational Context, in: Lazega, E., Snijders, T.A.B. (Eds.), Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications, Texts in Statistical Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–105.

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 Resource and Energy Economics.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Sea Sponge Bacteria Pretty Much Produces Industrial Chemicals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2013. VA Education Benefits: Student Characteristics and Outcomes Vary across Schools (No. GAO-13-567). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Morton, W.G., 2015. Isolating mycorrhizal fungi from Spiranthes vernalis for subsequent in vitro seed germination (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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., 2000. The Phantom Typist Revealed. New York Times 14WC8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wible, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Czyzewski and Wang, 2012; Wible, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Czyzewski and Wang, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Resource and Energy Economics
Abbreviation	Res. Energy Econ.
ISSN (print)	0928-7655
Scope	Economics and Econometrics