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

Cornet, F.H. (2015) SEISMOLOGY. Earthquakes induced by fluid injections, Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1204–1205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, B.R. and Candotti, F. (2010) Genetics. Mosaicism--switch or spectrum?, Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6000), 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan, Y., Yu, D. and Yao, Y.-G. (2014) Tree shrew database (TreeshrewDB): a genomic knowledge base for the Chinese tree shrew, Scientific reports, 4, 7145.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yoshida, Y., Kuroiwa, H., Misumi, O., et al (2006) Isolated chloroplast division machinery can actively constrict after stretching, Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1435–1438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langlois, P. (2013) Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tanaka, M. (2012) Computational Biomechanics: Theoretical Background and Biological/Biomedical Problems. A First Course in “In Silico Medicine.” Wada, S. and Nakamura, M. (eds.), Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Ary, B. and Imre, S. (2011) “Sizing of xDR Processing Systems.”, in Szabó, R., Zhu, H., Imre, S., et al (eds.), Access Networks: 5th International ICST Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2010 and First ICST International Workshop on Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in Access Networks, SELFMAGICNETS 2010, Budapest, Hungary, November 3-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp 62–70.

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

Taub, B. (2016) Wind Instrument Players Warned Over Hygiene After Man Is Killed By His Bagpipes, IFLScience.

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) Airline Competition: Higher Fares and Less Competition Continue at Concentrated Airports. RCED-93-171, 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

Brown, O. (2008) Business and IT leaders’ behavioral affects on alignment and project outcome: A comparative leadership study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

Williams, J. (2017) A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic, New York Times, 3 September, p C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cornet, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Davis and Candotti, 2010; Cornet, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Davis and Candotti, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida et al, 2006)

About the journal

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