How to format your references using the Natural Resources Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Resources Research. 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

Hwang, H. Y. (2006). Applied physics. Tuning interface states. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1895–1896.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suit, H. D., & Willers, H. (2003). Comment on “Tumor response to radiotherapy regulated by endothelial cell apoptosis” (I). Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1894; author reply 1894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cannistraci, C. V., Alanis-Lobato, G., & Ravasi, T. (2013). From link-prediction in brain connectomes and protein interactomes to the local-community-paradigm in complex networks. Scientific reports, 3, 1613.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Römpler, H., Rohland, N., Lalueza-Fox, C., Willerslev, E., Kuznetsova, T., Rabeder, G., et al. (2006). Nuclear gene indicates coat-color polymorphism in mammoths. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5783), 62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., & Gervásio, H. (2012). Design of Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Cantoni, V., Dimov, D., & Tistarelli, M. (Eds.). (2014). Biometric Authentication: First International Workshop, BIOMET 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 23-24, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8897). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Morgado, C., Leitão, T., & Cunha, J. C. (2014). An Approach for Characterizing Group-Based Interactive Environments. In C. Lai, A. Giuliani, & G. Semeraro (Eds.), Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval: DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers (pp. 79–100). 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 Natural Resources Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, July 7). China Refuels Satellite In Space For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-refuels-satellite-in-space-for-the-first-time/. 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. (2016). Genetically Engineered Crops: USDA Needs to Enhance Oversight and Better Understand Impacts of Unintended Mixing with Other Crops (No. GAO-16-241). 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

So, R. J. (2010). Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, August 23). Baseball Since 1869; Last Pennant Only Seems That Long Ago. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hwang 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang 2006; Suit and Willers 2003).

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

Two authors: (Suit and Willers 2003)
Three or more authors: (Römpler et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Resources Research
Abbreviation	Nat. Resour. Res.
ISSN (print)	1520-7439
ISSN (online)	1573-8981
Scope	General Environmental Science