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

Greenfield, P.M., 2009. Technology and informal education: what is taught, what is learned. Science 323, 69–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, M.J., Rosbash, M., 2001. Cell biology. TAPping into mRNA export. Science 294, 1841–1842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, T.-T., Tseng, S.C., Lavker, R.M., 2010. Location of corneal epithelial stem cells. Nature 463, E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Osyczka, A., Moser, C.C., Daldal, F., Dutton, P.L., 2004. Reversible redox energy coupling in electron transfer chains. Nature 427, 607–612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sato, T., Kammen, D.M., Duan, B., Macuha, M., Zhou, Z., Wu, J., Tariq, M., Asfaw, S.A., 2015. Smart Grid Standards. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Bennett, S.T., 2015. Laboratory Hemostasis: A Practical Guide for Pathologists, 2nd ed. 2015. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bühler, C., Pelka, B., 2014. Empowerment by Digital Media of People with Disabilities, in: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 17–24.

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., 2016. Puppy Swallows Tube Of Glue Creating A Perfect Mold Of Its Stomach [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, 1985. Relocation of the Western Executive Seminar Center (No. 126499). 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

Buzinski, P., 2009. Exploring job satisfaction of long-term virtual employees (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. DeGrom, a Mets Constant in This Season’s Rotation, Stymies the Giants. New York Times SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greenfield, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Greenfield, 2009; Moore and Rosbash, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Rosbash, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Osyczka et al., 2004)

About the journal

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