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

Tilgner, Erich. 2002. “Mantophasmatodea: A New Insect Order?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5582): 731; discussion 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tokuriki, Nobuhiko, and Dan S. Tawfik. 2009. “Chaperonin Overexpression Promotes Genetic Variation and Enzyme Evolution.” Nature 459 (7247): 668–673.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gagné, Jean-Philippe, Michèle Rouleau, and Guy G. Poirier. 2012. “Structural Biology. PARP-1 Activation--Bringing the Pieces Together.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6082): 678–679.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rosi, Nathaniel L., Juergen Eckert, Mohamed Eddaoudi, David T. Vodak, Jaheon Kim, Michael O’Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi. 2003. “Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5622): 1127–1129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson, Hasse, and Ulla Åkerlind. 2012. Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Blesa, María J., Christian Blum, Günther Raidl, Andrea Roli, and Michael Sampels, eds. 2010. Hybrid Metaheuristics: 7th International Workshop, HM 2010, Vienna, Austria, October 1-2, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 6373. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kirkwood, Colin. 2012. “Dialogue in Its Larger Context.” In The Persons in Relation Perspective: In Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning, edited by Colin Kirkwood, 57–62. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Nobel Prize Awarded To Scientists Who Identified The Brain’s ‘GPS System.’” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/nobel-prize-awarded-scientists-who-identified-brains-gps-system/.

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. 1995. Highway Safety: Causes of Injury in Automobile Crashes. PEMD-95-4. 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

Ayer, Eliot William. 2013. “An N-Gram Enhanced Learning Classifier for Chinese Character Recognition.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Saslow, Linda. 2006. “The Power of the Adolescent Pen.” New York Times, March 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tilgner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Tilgner 2002; Tokuriki and Tawfik 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tokuriki and Tawfik 2009)
Three authors: (Gagné, Rouleau, and Poirier 2012)
4 or more authors: (Rosi et al. 2003)

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