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

Nicholls H (2009) Darwin 200: A flight of fancy. Nature 457:790–791

A journal article with 2 authors

Ridley R, Toure Y (2004) Winning the drugs war. Nature 430:942–943

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Y, Chen G, Zhang C (2013) Tunable spin-orbit coupling and quantum phase transition in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. Sci Rep 3:1937

A journal article with 5 or more authors

de Graaf BHJ, Rudd JJ, Wheeler MJ, et al (2006) Self-incompatibility in Papaver targets soluble inorganic pyrophosphatases in pollen. Nature 444:490–493

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke W, Díez Muiño R (2013) Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Elgoibar P, Euwema M, Munduate L (eds) (2016) Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hemmati H, Gupta D, Basu C (2015) Molecular Physiology of Heat Stress Responses in Plants. In: Pandey GK (ed) Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2. Springer, New York, NY, pp 109–142

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 E (2014) Solar Dynamics Observatory Releases Highlights From Year Four. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-dynamics-observatory-releases-highlights-year-four/. 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 (1997) Inventory Management: The Army Could Reduce Logistics Costs for Aviation Parts by Adopting Best Practices. 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

Robey AM (2017) The Benefits of Testing: Individual Differences Based on Student Factors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kolomatsky M (2017) The Best Cities for Millennials. New York Times RE2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholls 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ridley and Toure 2004; Nicholls 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ridley and Toure 2004)
Three or more authors: (de Graaf et al. 2006)

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