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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Emlen, D.J. (2001) Costs and the diversification of exaggerated animal structures, Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5508): 1534–1536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, W.P. and Brudzinski, M.R. (2001) Evidence for a large-scale remnant of subducted lithosphere beneath Fiji, Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526): 2475–2479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mourre, V., Villa, P. and Henshilwood, C.S. (2010) Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa, Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004): 659–662.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

An, Z., Clemens, S.C., Shen, J., Qiang, X., Jin, Z., Sun, Y., et al (2011) Glacial-interglacial Indian summer monsoon dynamics, Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043): 719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, J., Gaare, M., Holguín, J., Bailey, N. and Pratley, T. (2016) Professional Clojure, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Donati-Martin, C., Lejay, A. and Rouault, A. (eds) (2011) Séminaire de Probabilités XLIII. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bezerra, E.A. and Lettnin, D.V. (2014) Multiplexer and Demultiplexer., in D.V. Lettnin (ed.) Synthesizable VHDL Design for FPGAs, Springer International Publishing, pp 57–68.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017) Water Ice Seen Inside A Comet For The First Time Thanks To A Massive Landslide, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-ice-seen-inside-a-comet-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-massive-landslide/.

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 (1997) Student Financial Aid Information: Systems Architecture Needed to Improve Programs’ Efficiency. AIMD-97-122, 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

Adijanto, J. (2010) Metabolic acid transport in human retinal pigment epithelium, Doctoral dissertation, 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

Grynbaum, M.M. (2017) ‘Wow’: Stunned Cable News Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump, New York Times, 16 August, p B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emlen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Brudzinski, 2001; Emlen, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Brudzinski, 2001)
Three or more authors: (An et al, 2011)

About the journal

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