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

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

Emery B. (2010). Regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination, Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, 779–782.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dennett-Thorpe J. and de Bruyn A.G. (2002). Interstellar scintillation as the origin of the rapid radio variability of the quasar J1819+3845, Nature 415, 57–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley A.I., Lang A.S. and Suttle C.A. (2003). High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea, Nature 424, 1054–1057.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Zhang D.Y., Turberfield A.J., Yurke B. and Winfree E. (2007). Engineering entropy-driven reactions and networks catalyzed by DNA, Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, 1121–1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leuf B. (2006). The Semantic Web. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gaaloul K., Schmidt R., Nurcan S., Guerreiro S. and Ma Q. (eds) (2015). Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 16th International Conference, BPMDS 2015, 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao G. and Yan L. (2016). Liver Fibrosis and Its Assessment. In: L. Yan (ed) Operative Techniques in Liver Resection, pp. 43–52. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Blog post

Hale T. (2016). The Strange Process Of Coral Bleaching Is Caught On Camera For First Time, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-strange-process-of-coral-bleaching-is-caught-on-camera-for-first-time/ [accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988). Biotechnology: Managing the Risks of Field Testing Genetically Engineered Organisms. 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

Falcone J.N. (2017). For Pets’ Sake: Is There a Need for Dog Safety Community Education?

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

Kishkovsky S. (2007). Impact Report Clears Russian Oil Project, New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emery 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dennett-Thorpe and de Bruyn 2002, Emery 2010).

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

Two authors: (Dennett-Thorpe and de Bruyn 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ISSN (print)	1364-985X
ISSN (online)	1467-8489
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