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

Honour JW (2004) The fight for fair play. Nature 430:143–144

A journal article with 2 authors

Rossant J, Hogan B (2007) Retrospective. Anne McLaren (1927-2007). Science 317:609

A journal article with 3 authors

Furlong KP, Lay T, Ammon CJ (2009) A great earthquake rupture across a rapidly evolving three-plate boundary. Science 324:226–229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li K, Jing Y, Yang C, et al (2014) Increased leukemia-associated gene expression in benzene-exposed workers. Sci Rep 4:5369

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H, Stoyan D (2008) Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

José Escalona M, Aragón G, Linger H, et al (eds) (2014) Information System Development: Improving Enterprise Communication. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Iriondo I, Planet S, Socoró J-C, Alías F (2007) Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus. In: Chetouani M, Hussain A, Gas B, et al. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Non-Linear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2007 Paris, France, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 86–94

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 (2015) Chemistry Nobel DNA Research Lays Foundation For New Ways To Fight Cancer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemistry-nobel-dna-research-lays-foundation-new-ways-fight-cancer/. 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) NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional Force Balance--Papers for U.S. and Soviet Perspectives Workshops. 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

Reimer EL (2010) Grant proposal: Support services for families of children diagnosed with autism. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sutherland J (2016) He Loved Opium, Murder and Wordsworth. New York Times BR22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Honour 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Honour 2004; Rossant and Hogan 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rossant and Hogan 2007)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

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