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

Schilling, G., 2000. ASTRONOMY: The Virtual Observatory Moves Closer to Reality. Science 289, 238a–9a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brüggen, M., Kaiser, C.R., 2002. Hot bubbles from active galactic nuclei as a heat source in cooling-flow clusters. Nature 418, 301–303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Azuma, S., Katayama, I., Nakakuki, T., 2014. Rheological decoupling at the Moho and implication to Venusian tectonics. Sci. Rep. 4, 4403.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Berardini, T.Z., Bollman, K., Sun, H., Poethig, R.S., 2001. Regulation of vegetative phase change in Arabidopsis thaliana by cyclophilin 40. Science 291, 2405–2407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leach, M., Drummond, M., Doig, A., 2013. Practical Flow Cytometry in Haematology Diagnosis. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Bozanis, P., Houstis, E.N. (Eds.), 2005. Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Laures, C., 2011. Innovative Energy Concepts in the Water Supply Sector, in: Schmidt, M., Onyango, V., Palekhov, D. (Eds.), Implementing Environmental and Resource Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 23–31.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. There’s A Test That Tells You If You’re A “Super-Recognizer” Of Faces, And You Can Take It Right Now [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/theres-a-test-that-tells-you-if-youre-a-superrecognizer-of-faces-and-you-can-take-it-right-now/ (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, 2008. Traffic Safety: Grants Generally Address Key Safety Issues, Despite State Eligibility and Management Difficulties (No. GAO-08-398). 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

McPeek, S.E., 2017. Religious Rhetoric and the Radio: The Sermons of Rev. Dr. Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, International Lutheran Hour Speaker, 1955-1985 (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Dynarski, S., 2014. Where College Ratings Hits the Wall. New York Times BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brüggen and Kaiser, 2002; Schilling, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Brüggen and Kaiser, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Berardini et al., 2001)

About the journal

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