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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resource and Energy 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	Download the output style file
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

Holden, C., 2000. DIVERSITY: Parity as a Goal Sparks Bitter Battle. Science 289, 380.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gan, J., Appenzeller, T., 2014. 2013 Visualization Challenge. Introduction. Science 343, 599.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, B.A., Hewins, R.H., Yu, Y., 2000. Evaporation in the young solar nebula as the origin of “just-right” melting of chondrules. Nature 406, 600–602.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jackson, D.J., Macis, L., Reitner, J., Degnan, B.M., Wörheide, G., 2007. Sponge paleogenomics reveals an ancient role for carbonic anhydrase in skeletogenesis. Science 316, 1893–1895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu, L., 2012. Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hunter, J., Maunder, R. (Eds.), 2016. Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gkoulalas-Divanis, A., Verykios, V.S., 2010. Summary, in: Verykios, V.S. (Ed.), Association Rule Hiding for Data Mining, Advances in Database Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 25–25.

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 Resource and Energy Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Dawn Eases Into Orbit Around The Dwarf Planet Ceres [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/dawn-eases-orbit-around-dwarf-planet-ceres/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Redesign of Its Tax Administration System (No. IMTEC-88-5FS). 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

Winer, E.J., 2010. Elementary School Consolidation and Reconfiguration: An Autoethnographic Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Keeping Historic, but Expensive, Fixer-Uppers Affordable. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gan and Appenzeller, 2014; Holden, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gan and Appenzeller, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Jackson et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Resource and Energy Economics
Abbreviation	Res. Energy Econ.
ISSN (print)	0928-7655
Scope	Economics and Econometrics