How to format your references using the Environmental and Resource Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental and 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

Kleiner K (2007) The shipping forecast. Nature 449:272–273

A journal article with 2 authors

Bellows DS, Tyers M (2004) Cell biology. Chemical genetics hits. Science 306:67–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Dillon RJ, Vennard CT, Charnley AK (2000) Exploitation of gut bacteria in the locust. Nature 403:851

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gao X, Lu F, Zhou L, et al (2009) Structure and mechanism of an amino acid antiporter. Science 324:1565–1568

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JC, Naeim F (2012) Basic Structural Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fabrikant SI, Wachowicz M (eds) (2007) The European Information Society: Leading the Way with Geo-information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Nijsen A (2009) SCM to Measure Compliance Costs. In: Nijsen A, Hudson J, Müller C, et al. (eds) Business Regulation and Public Policy: The Costs and Benefits of Compliance. Springer, New York, NY, pp 1–22

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 Environmental and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Brain Pathway Rediscovered After 100 Years. In: IFLScience. 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 (2008) Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns. 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

Okada H (2008) Modulation of BACE1 by a novel sorting nexin in Alzheimer’s disease. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Itzkoff D, Bai M, Levin B, et al (2012) The One Page Magazine. New York Times MM9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bellows and Tyers 2004; Kleiner 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bellows and Tyers 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental and Resource Economics
Abbreviation	Environ. Resour. Econ. (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0924-6460
ISSN (online)	1573-1502
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Aerospace Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law