How to format your references using the Global Discourse citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Discourse. 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

King, David A. 2004. “Environment. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5655): 176–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, Min, and Randy Schekman. 2013. “Cell Biology. Unconventional Secretion, Unconventional Solutions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6132): 559–561.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srisonphan, Siwapon, Myungji Kim, and Hong Koo Kim. 2014. “Space Charge Neutralization by Electron-Transparent Suspended Graphene.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3764.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Morgan-Bathke, Maria, Grace A. Hill, Zoey I. Harris, Her H. Lin, Alex M. Chibly, Rob R. Klein, Randy Burd, David K. Ann, and Kirsten H. Limesand. 2014. “Autophagy Correlates with Maintenance of Salivary Gland Function Following Radiation.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, Scott A. 2011. Food and Package Engineering. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Nurcan, Selmin, Pnina Soffer, Marko Bajec, and Johann Eder, eds. 2016. Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 28th International Conference, CAiSE 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-17, 2016. Proceedings. Vol. 9694. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gliozzi, Stefano, Alessandro Castellazzo, and Giorgio Fasano. 2016. “Packing Problems in Space Solved by CPLEX: An Experimental Analysis.” In Space Engineering: Modeling and Optimization with Case Studies, edited by Giorgio Fasano and János D. Pintér, 129–150. Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Global Discourse.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2015. “Astronomers Create A ‘Habitability Index’ To Guide Future Exoplanet Studies.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-assign-habitability-index-guide-future-telescopes/.

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. 2016. Information Technology: Better Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census Is Needed. GAO-16-623. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pena, Anne Marie. 2012. “Perceptions of Spanish/English Bilingual School Psychologists Regarding Competency in Assessment and Future Training Needs.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: 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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “A Cosmic Comeuppance for the Dodgers.” New York Times, April 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King 2004).
This sentence cites two references (King 2004; Zhang and Schekman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Schekman 2013)
Three authors: (Srisonphan, Kim, and Kim 2014)
4 or more authors: (Morgan-Bathke et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Discourse
ISSN (print)	2326-9995
ISSN (online)	2043-7897
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations