How to format your references using the Global Transitions citation style

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

[1]

T. Becker, Geophysics. Fine-scale modeling of global plate tectonics, Science 329 (2010) 1020–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.E. Minetti, L.P. Ardigó, Halteres used in ancient Olympic long jump, Nature 420 (2002) 141–142.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Heil, J. Rattke, W. Boland, Postsecretory hydrolysis of nectar sucrose and specialization in ant/plant mutualism, Science 308 (2005) 560–563.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.B. Langkjaer, P.F. Cliften, M. Johnston, J. Piskur, Yeast genome duplication was followed by asynchronous differentiation of duplicated genes, Nature 421 (2003) 848–852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Kramer, B. Legeard, Model-Based Testing Essentials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

N. Sabharwal, Automation through Chef Opscode, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Raghavan, Web Search: Bridging Information Retrieval and Microeconomic Modeling, in: S. Aluru, M. Parashar, R. Badrinath, V.K. Prasanna (Eds.), High Performance Computing – HiPC 2007: 14th International Conference, Goa, India, December 18-21, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 6–6.

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 Transitions.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Giant Squid Tries To Steal Fish From Russian Fishing Boat, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, At-Risk Youth: School-Community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Fichera, Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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

[1]

J. Schwartz, ‘A Conservative Climate Solution’: Republican Group Calls for a Carbon Tax, New York Times (2017) A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Transitions
ISSN (print)	2589-7918
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