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

Melosh, H.J., 2002. Asteroids. Traces of an unusual impact. Science 296, 1037–1038.

A journal article with 2 authors

Derynck, R., Zhang, Y.E., 2003. Smad-dependent and Smad-independent pathways in TGF-beta family signalling. Nature 425, 577–584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karnath, H.O., Ferber, S., Himmelbach, M., 2001. Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe. Nature 411, 950–953.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pan, Z., Lerch, S.J.L., Xu, L., Li, X., Chuang, Y.-J., Howe, J.Y., Mahurin, S.M., Dai, S., Hildebrand, M., 2014. Electronically transparent graphene replicas of diatoms: a new technique for the investigation of frustule morphology. Sci. Rep. 4, 6117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartoszyǹski, R., Niewiadomska-Bugaj, M., 2007. Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Siekmann, R.C.R., Soek, J. (Eds.), 2012. Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law?, ASSER International Sports Law Series. T. M. C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Poveda, R.L., Gupta, N., 2016. Environmental Effects on CNF/Polymer Composites, in: Gupta, N. (Ed.), Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–51.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Electromagnetism Has The Same Strength Across The Universe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/electromagnetism-has-the-same-strength-across-the-universe/ (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, 1993. FTS 2000: Status and Mandatory Use (No. T-IMTEC-93-5). 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

Shaker, G., 2008. Off the track: The full-time nontenure -track faculty experience in English (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. The Last Shaman. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melosh, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Derynck and Zhang, 2003; Melosh, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Derynck and Zhang, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Pan 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

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