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

Thorpe, R.S., 2005. Ecology. Population evolution and island biogeography. Science 310, 1778–1779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chatterjee, S., Grosshans, H., 2009. Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 461, 546–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita, T., Wenger, T., Weiss, D.S., 2004. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science 305, 1125–1128.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zauderer, B.A., Berger, E., Soderberg, A.M., Loeb, A., Narayan, R., Frail, D.A., Petitpas, G.R., Brunthaler, A., Chornock, R., Carpenter, J.M., Pooley, G.G., Mooley, K., Kulkarni, S.R., Margutti, R., Fox, D.B., Nakar, E., Patel, N.A., Volgenau, N.H., Culverhouse, T.L., Bietenholz, M.F., Rupen, M.P., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A.C.S., Richards, J., Shepherd, M., Storm, S., Hull, C.L.H., 2011. Birth of a relativistic outflow in the unusual γ-ray transient Swift J164449.3+573451. Nature 476, 425–428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society, 2013. Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2014. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Marle, F., 2016. Managing Complex, High Risk Projects: A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Kane, L.P., Delgoffe, G.M., 2016. Reversing T Cell Dysfunction for Tumor Immunotherapy, in: Rennert, P.D. (Ed.), Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Cancer: Drug Development and Clinical Application. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 109–128.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Why one hectare of rainforest grows more tree species than US and Canada combined [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-one-hectare-rainforest-grows-more-tree-species-us-and-canada-combined/ (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, 1991. Attack Warning: Costs to Modernize NORAD’s Computer System Significantly Understated (No. IMTEC-91-23). 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

Zazworsky, L.M., 2013. Dumbing down for others: Differences in socially motivated underachievement between working and middle class students (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Donadio, R., 2015. A Russian Art Leader’s Bold Goal: Engaging the West. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thorpe, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chatterjee and Grosshans, 2009; Thorpe, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chatterjee and Grosshans, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zauderer et al., 2011)

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