How to format your references using the The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lowe J.B. (2005). Cell biology. Does Notch take the sweet road to success?, Science (New York, N.Y.) 307, 1570–1572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng J.-X. and Xie X.S. (2015). Vibrational spectroscopic imaging of living systems: An emerging platform for biology and medicine, Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, aaa8870.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dixson D.L., Abrego D. and Hay M.E. (2014). Reef ecology. Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: a tipping point that may limit reef recovery, Science (New York, N.Y.) 345, 892–897.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Schroeder B.C., Waldegger S., Fehr S., Bleich M., Warth R., Greger R. and Jentsch T.J. (2000). A constitutively open potassium channel formed by KCNQ1 and KCNE3, Nature 403, 196–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rees P.A. (2011). An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Heiz U. and Landman U. (eds) (2007). Nanocatalysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

N. Makarov S., Ludwig R. and Bitar S.J. (2016). Circuit Analysis and Power Transfer. In: R. Ludwig and S.J. Bitar (eds) Practical Electrical Engineering, pp. 139–188. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2014). Aging Brains Aren’t Necessarily Declining Brains, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/aging-brains-aren-t-necessarily-declining-brains/ [accessed 30 Oct 2018].

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). National Airspace System: Airport-Centric Development. 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

Kim B.G. (2010). Mercury-containing species and carbon dioxide adsorption studies on inorganic compounds using density functional theory.

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

Beard M. (2017). Wrath in the Time of Choler, New York Times, BR18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lowe 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lowe 2005, Cheng and Xie 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Xie 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schroeder et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ISSN (print)	1364-985X
ISSN (online)	1467-8489
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