How to format your references using the International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and 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

Marx, V. (2015). Cancer: A most exceptional response. Nature, 520(7547), 389–393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karsenty, G., & Ferron, M. (2012). The contribution of bone to whole-organism physiology. Nature, 481(7381), 314–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, C., Linde, A. T., & Sacks, I. S. (2009). Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons. Nature, 459(7248), 833–836.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jalilavi, M., Zoveidavianpoor, M., Attarhamed, F., Junin, R., & Mohsin, R. (2014). Artificial weathering as a function of CO2 injection in Pahang Sandstone Malaysia: investigation of dissolution rate in surficial condition. Scientific reports, 4, 3645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Britton, M. (2015). YouthNation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Galmiche, D., & Larchey-Wendling, D. (Eds.). (2013). Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings (Vol. 8123). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanstedt, P. (2014). The Generalist. In K. P. Zepeda & E. Mayock (Eds.), Forging a Rewarding Career in the Humanities: Advice for Academics (pp. 37–46). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 24). New Crab Species Honors Harry Potter (And The Crustacean Of Secrets). IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2005). Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program (No. GAO-05-861T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Amezcua, D. (2016). Increasing academic success for foster youth: Educational workshops and resource guides: A grant proposal (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

Cooper, M. (2014, July 8). Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Karsenty and Ferron 2012; Marx 2015).

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

Two authors: (Karsenty and Ferron 2012)
Three or more authors: (Jalilavi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Environ. Agreements
ISSN (print)	1567-9764
ISSN (online)	1573-1553
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Law Political Science and International Relations