How to format your references using the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). 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

Stuessy, Tod F. 2006. Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in islands? Nature 443 (7114): E12; discussion E12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, Brendan, and Robert Costanza. 2005. Environmental policy: regional commitment to reducing emissions. Nature 438 (7066): 301–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, Xihua, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Min Xiao. 2013. Entangler via electromagnetically induced transparency with an atomic ensemble. Scientific reports 3: 3479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chesley, Steven R, Steven J Ostro, David Vokrouhlicky, David Capek, Jon D Giorgini, Michael C Nolan, Jean-Luc Margot, Alice A Hine, Lance AM Benner, and Alan B Chamberlin. 2003. Direct detection of the Yarkovsky effect by radar ranging to asteroid 6489 Golevka. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5651): 1739–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin, Daniel W, and Bolivar A Senior. 2009. Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fehske, H., R. Schneider, and A. Weiße (editors). 2008. Computational Many-Particle Physics. Vol. 739. Lecture Notes in Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Corbineau, Pierre. 2008. A Declarative Language for the Coq Proof Assistant. In Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers, ed. Marino Miculan, Ivan Scagnetto, and Furio Honsell, 69–84. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Watch Scientists Dissect Colossal Squid LIVE. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/live-webcast-colossal-squid-dissection/. IFLScience.

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. 2012. Geostationary Weather Satellites: Design Progress Made, but Schedule Uncertainty Needs to be Addressed. 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

Lewis, Tiffany Lorraine. 2010. Quantitative approach to technical performance measurement and technical risk analysis utilizing Bayesian methods and Monte Carlo simulation. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hussey, Kristin. 2015. Troubling Text Before a Couple Vanished in Connecticut: ‘Did You Hurt Mom?’ New York Times, September 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stuessy 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Stuessy 2006; Fisher and Costanza 2005).

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

Two authors: (Fisher and Costanza 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chesley et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
ISSN (print)	2333-5955
ISSN (online)	2333-5963
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