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

Seife C (2000) INFORMATION THEORY: “Ultimate PC” Would Be a Hot Little Number. Science 289:1447a–8a

A journal article with 2 authors

Mumford D, Tate J (2015) Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014). Nature 517:272

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanner C, Manca C, Leutwyler S (2003) Probing the threshold to H atom transfer along a hydrogen-bonded ammonia wire. Science 302:1736–1739

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang X, Beaulieu J-M, Sotnikova TD, et al (2004) Tryptophan hydroxylase-2 controls brain serotonin synthesis. Science 305:217

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nemethy L (2011) Business Exit Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kpodonu J, Haulon S (eds) (2013) Atlas of Advanced Endoaortic Surgery. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Burkhardt CE, Leventhal JJ (2008) Stationary States in One Dimension II. In: Leventhal JJ (ed) Foundations of Quantum Physics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 1–56

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

Fang J (2014) Dwarf Galaxies Produce More Than Their Fair Share Of Stars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxies-produce-more-their-fair-share-stars/. 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 (1999) Department of Education: Resolving Discrimination Complaints Has Improved With New Processing System. 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

Tang Y (2009) Structure tailored properties and functionalities of zero-dimensional nanostructures. 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

Linda Greenhouse; Karen, Gary Gately contributed reporting for this article (2005) Supreme Court Roundup; BURDEN OF PROOF NOW ON PARENTS IN SCHOOL CASES. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seife 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Seife 2000; Mumford and Tate 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mumford and Tate 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2004)

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