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

Renton P (2004) Has the Higgs boson been discovered? Nature 428:141–144

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulet JFA, Hedwig B (2002) A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production. Nature 418:872–876

A journal article with 3 authors

Magavi SS, Leavitt BR, Macklis JD (2000) Induction of neurogenesis in the neocortex of adult mice. Nature 405:951–955

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bringa EM, Caro A, Wang Y, et al (2005) Ultrahigh strength in nanocrystalline materials under shock loading. Science 309:1838–1841

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaitly R (2016) Practical Operational Due Diligence on Hedge Funds. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mukhopadhyay SC, Jayasundera KP, Fuchs A (eds) (2013) Advancement in Sensing Technology: New Developments and Practical Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Paloutzian RF (2010) The Bullet and Its Meaning: Forgiveness, Nonforgiveness, and Their Confrontation. In: Paloutzian RF (ed) Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building. Springer, New York, NY, pp 71–80

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

Luntz S (2015) Oldest Known Message-In-A-Bottle Found. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oldest-floating-message-found/. 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 (2007) Improper Payments: Weaknesses in USAID’s and NASA’s Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act and Recovery Auditing. 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

Tajer SA (2010) Topics in MIMO networks. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Crow K (2001) Time for Recalling the Departed And Reuniting the Long-Lost Related. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Renton 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Poulet and Hedwig 2002; Renton 2004).

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

Two authors: (Poulet and Hedwig 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bringa et al. 2005)

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