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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (JARE). 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

Norreys, P.A. 2008. “Physics. Complexity in Fusion Plasmas.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319(5867): 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, G.D., and S. Gordon. 2001. “Immune Recognition. A New Receptor for Beta-Glucans.” Nature 413(6851): 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luce, C.H., J.T. Abatzoglou, and Z.A. Holden. 2013. “The Missing Mountain Water: Slower Westerlies Decrease Orographic Enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342(6164): 1360–1364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thomas, L., M. Hayashi, X. Jiang, R. Moriya, C. Rettner, and S.S.P. Parkin. 2006. “Oscillatory Dependence of Current-Driven Magnetic Domain Wall Motion on Current Pulse Length.” Nature 443(7108): 197–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Räisänen, V. 2006. Service Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Casey, J.L., ed. 2006. Hepatitis Delta Virus. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Acharyya, M. 2008. “An Empirical Study on Enterprise Risk Management in Insurance.” In D.L. Olson and D. Wu, eds. New Frontiers in Enterprise Risk Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 39–55.

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 Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “Chronic Pot Smoking Associated With Reduced Gray Matter, But Increased Connections.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Available online at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/chronic-pot-smoking-associated-brain-changes/. [Accessed Oct. 30, 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. Charter Schools: Oversight Practices in the District of Columbia. GAO-05-490. 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

Decker, K.M. 2013. “A Study of Relationships between Counselor Education, Social Justice Advocacy Competence, and Likelihood to Advocate.” Doctoral dissertation. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Burghardt, L.F. 2006. “Nunley’s Carousel Comes Full Circle.” New York Times, January 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norreys, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Gordon, 2001; Norreys, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Gordon, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ISSN (print)	1068-5502
ISSN (online)	2327-8285
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