How to format your references using the Annual Review of Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Resource 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	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

Boughman J. 2007. Great expectations. Nature. 447(7145):752

A journal article with 2 authors

Eroglu C, Barres BA. 2010. Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia. Nature. 468(7321):223–31

A journal article with 3 authors

Buffetaut E, Martill D, Escuillié F. 2004. Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet. Nature. 430(6995):33

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou L, Mitra R, Atkinson PW, Hickman AB, Dyda F, Craig NL. 2004. Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and V(D)J recombination. Nature. 432(7020):995–1001

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lenk R, Lenk C. 2011. Practical Lighting Design With LEDs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Voogt J, Knezek G, eds. 2008. International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, Vol. 20. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Alloyeau D. 2012. Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Multifunctional Tool for the Atomic-scale Characterization of Nanoalloys. In Nanoalloys: Synthesis, Structure and Properties, eds. D Alloyeau, C Mottet, C Ricolleau, pp. 113–57. London: 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 Resource Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. The Best Close-Up Picture Of Pluto From New Horizons Yet. 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. 2016. Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with Chief Information Officers Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects. GAO-16-733T, 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

Shlapak A. 2013. Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County. 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

Koblin J. 2017. Political Bite Gives Colbert Ratings Edge Over Fallon. New York Times, Feb. 7, , p. B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boughman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boughman 2007; Eroglu & Barres 2010).

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

Two authors: (Eroglu & Barres 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Resource Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Resour. Economics
ISSN (print)	1941-1340
ISSN (online)	1941-1359
Scope	Economics and Econometrics