How to format your references using the Group Decision and Negotiation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Group Decision and Negotiation. 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

Scalapino DJ (2008) Physics. This coincidence cannot be accidental. Science 319:1492–1493

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang X-Q, Xu D (2002) Calculating forest biomass changes in China. Science 296:1359; discussion 1359

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker PJ, Harris S, Webbon CC (2002) Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature 419:34

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kromer B, Manning SW, Kuniholm PI, et al (2001) Regional 14CO2 offsets in the troposphere: magnitude, mechanisms, and consequences. Science 294:2529–2532

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu HH (2011) Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yadav BS, Mohan M (eds) (2011) Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Warde D (2009) Anaesthesia and Analgesia. In: Puri P, Höllwarth M (eds) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–51

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 Group Decision and Negotiation.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Wet Asteroids Brought Water To A Magma-Covered Ancient Moon. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1971) Examination Into the Manner in Which the Office of Education Is Administering the Teacher Corps Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen DN (2012) Career decision process of first generation Vietnamese American college students. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Vecsey G (2010) Thames, Schooled In the Yankee Way, Plays His Role. New York Times D5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scalapino 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Xu 2002; Scalapino 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Xu 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kromer et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Group Decision and Negotiation
Abbreviation	Group Decis. Negot.
ISSN (print)	0926-2644
ISSN (online)	1572-9907
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management General Decision Sciences General Social Sciences