How to format your references using the Economics of Governance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics of Governance. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Peckham M (2009) Journal club. A cell biologist ponders an outstanding mystery in muscle formation. Nature 458:1081

A journal article with 2 authors

Hupp JT, Poeppelmeier KR (2005) Chemistry. Better living through nanopore chemistry. Science 309:2008–2009

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinclair ARE, Mduma S, Brashares JS (2003) Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system. Nature 425:288–290

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shimada A, Ueguchi-Tanaka M, Nakatsu T, et al (2008) Structural basis for gibberellin recognition by its receptor GID1. Nature 456:520–523

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon MJ Jr (2010) Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kardel T, Maquet P (eds) (2013) Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Smeulders D, Cortis A, Guermond JL, Lafarge D (2005) Pore Roughness Effects on Highfrequency Permeability. In: Gladwell GML, Huyghe JM, Raats PAC, Cowin SC (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Physicochemical and Electromechanical Interactions in Porous Media. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–60

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 Economics of Governance.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) The Average Person Is Supposed to Eat 2,000 Calories per Day — What That Looks like Is Startling. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-average-person-is-supposed-to-eat-2000-calories-per-day-what-that-looks-like-is-startling/. 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 (2005) Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on the Federal Communications Commission’s Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Process. 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

Crowley CE (2012) Aging of Florida Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus, Through the Biochemical Extraction of Lipofuscin. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Pomfret J (2017) Isolating China doesn’t work. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peckham 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hupp and Poeppelmeier 2005; Peckham 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hupp and Poeppelmeier 2005)
Three or more authors: (Shimada et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics of Governance
Abbreviation	Econ. Gov.
ISSN (print)	1435-6104
ISSN (online)	1435-8131
Scope	Business and International Management General Economics, Econometrics and Finance