How to format your references using the Games and Economic Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Games and Economic Behavior. 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 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

Smaglik, P., 2005. Central stations. Nature 433, 439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffelt, S.B., de Visser, K.E., 2014. Cancer: Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature 507, 48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kartal, B., Kuenen, J.G., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., 2010. Engineering. Sewage treatment with anammox. Science 328, 702–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, Z., Zhu, X., Yu, Y., Zhang, N., Zhao, J., 2014. Super-luminescent jet light generated by femtosecond laser pulses. Sci. Rep. 4, 3892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelsey, J.E., Newport, D.J., Nemeroff, C.B., 2006. Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Proulx, T. (Ed.), 2011. Experimental Mechanics on Emerging Energy Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

McCubbins, M.D., Turner, M., Weller, N., 2012. The Mythology of Game Theory, in: Yang, S.J., Greenberg, A.M., Endsley, M. (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–34.

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 Games and Economic Behavior.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. How AI Will Affect Urban Life In 2030, According To Scientists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-ai-will-affect-urban-life-in-2030-according-to-scientists/ (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, 1990. Highway Safety: Trends in Highway Fatalities 1975-1987 (No. PEMD-90-10). 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

Platt, J.B., 2008. Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Once ‘All In,’ Mets Are More Than 10 Games Out at the All-Star Break. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Coffelt and de Visser, 2014; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Coffelt and de Visser, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Games and Economic Behavior
Abbreviation	Games Econ. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0899-8256
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance