How to format your references using the Resources Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resources Policy. 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

Stewart, M., 2009. Cell biology. Nuclear export of small RNAs. Science 326, 1195–1196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shang, Y., Bouffanais, R., 2014. Influence of the number of topologically interacting neighbors on swarm dynamics. Sci. Rep. 4, 4184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miner-Williams, W.M., Moughan, P.J., Fuller, M.F., 2013. Analysis of an ethanol precipitate from ileal digesta: evaluation of a method to determine mucin. Sci. Rep. 3, 3145.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Erickson, G.M., Makovicky, P.J., Currie, P.J., Norell, M.A., Yerby, S.A., Brochu, C.A., 2004. Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. Nature 430, 772–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lévy, P., 2013. The Semantic Sphere 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Martienssen, W., Warlimont, H. (Eds.), 2005. Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, A.W.H., Quaglia, A., Haugk, B., Burt, A., 2014. Fatty Liver Disease, in: Quaglia, A., Haugk, B., Burt, A. (Eds.), Atlas of Liver Pathology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 71–84.

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 Resources Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Britain’s Oldest Surviving Human Brain Was Preserved In Mud For 2,600 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-mud-helped-preserve-human-brain-2600-years/ (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, 1988. Space Shuttle: External Tank Procurement Does Not Comply With Competition in Contracting Act (No. NSIAD-89-62). 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

Winton, T.W., 2015. Student and Teacher Perceptions of Standards-based Grading and Student Performance (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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., 2016. With a Final Shot, the Mets Are Denied as the Braves Snatch a Sweep. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Shang and Bouffanais, 2014; Stewart, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Shang and Bouffanais, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Erickson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Resources Policy
Abbreviation	Resour. Policy
ISSN (print)	0301-4207
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Law Sociology and Political Science