How to format your references using the International Gambling Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Gambling Studies. 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

Cohn, M. J. (2002). Evolutionary biology: lamprey Hox genes and the origin of jaws. Nature, 416(6879), 386–387.

A journal article with 2 authors

Omenetto, F. G., & Kaplan, D. L. (2010). New opportunities for an ancient material. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5991), 528–531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berciu, M., Rappoport, T. G., & Jankó, B. (2005). Manipulating spin and charge in magnetic semiconductors using superconducting vortices. Nature, 435(7038), 71–75.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wittenburg, N., Eimer, S., Lakowski, B., Röhrig, S., Rudolph, C., & Baumeister, R. (2000). Presenilin is required for proper morphology and function of neurons in C. elegans. Nature, 406(6793), 306–309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darbyshire, P., & Hampton, D. (2014). Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Maciaszek, L. A., & Zhang, K. (Eds.). (2013). Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering: 6th International Conference, ENASE 2011, Beijing, China, June 8-11, 2011. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 275). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Plumley, J. (2016). Perception on Design Quality within the New Mega Townships of India. In P. Tiwari (Ed.), The Towers of New Capital: Mega Townships in India (pp. 45–49). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 International Gambling Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 25). The Bronx Zoo Has Two New Gorillas! IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bronx-zoo-has-two-new-gorillas/

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. (2003). Federal Transit Administration: Bus Rapid Transit Offers Communities a Flexible Mass Transit Option (GAO-03-729T). 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

Taylor, T. E. (2016). Characterizing EGFRvIII-independent glioblastoma maintenance [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, July 20). Activist Fund Cashes Out Of Stake in Whole Foods. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohn, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cohn, 2002; Omenetto & Kaplan, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Omenetto & Kaplan, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wittenburg et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Gambling Studies
Abbreviation	Int. Gambl. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1445-9795
ISSN (online)	1479-4276
Scope	Applied Psychology