How to format your references using the Annual Review of Environment and Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

McCusker JK. 2001. Photocatalysis. Fuel from photons. Science. 293(5535):1599–1601

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers G, Dragert H. 2003. Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science. 300(5627):1942–43

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone JV, Hunkin NM, Hornby A. 2001. Predicting spontaneous recovery of memory. Nature. 414(6860):167–68

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dueber JE, Yeh BJ, Chak K, Lim WA. 2003. Reprogramming control of an allosteric signaling switch through modular recombination. Science. 301(5641):1904–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray R. 2011. A History of American Literature. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Zembaty Z, De Stefano M, eds. 2016. Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures II, Vol. 40. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XIV, 346 p. 200 illus., 119 illus. in color p. 1st ed. 2016 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam THW, Lee RST. 2007. iJADE FreeWalker – An Intelligent Ontology Agent-based Tourist Guiding System. In Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems, ed RST Lee, V Loia, pp. 103–25. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. A Robot You Can Wear Could Help Carry Heavy Loads. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1981. Consistent Criteria Are Needed To Assess Small-Business Innovation Initiatives. PAD-81-15, 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

Torres C. 2013. Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and conceptualizing community. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L. 2007. Do Ankle Bracelets Work? Here’s One Way to Find Out. New York Times, Feb. 11, p. 14LI2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.
ISSN (print)	1543-5938
ISSN (online)	1545-2050
Scope	General Environmental Science