How to format your references using the International Journal of Game Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Game Theory. 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

Leonhardt U (2002) A laboratory analogue of the event horizon using slow light in an atomic medium. Nature 415:406–409

A journal article with 2 authors

Amamoto R, Arlotta P (2014) Development-inspired reprogramming of the mammalian central nervous system. Science 343:1239882

A journal article with 3 authors

Berger AH, Knudson AG, Pandolfi PP (2011) A continuum model for tumour suppression. Nature 476:163–169

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Headland SE, Jones HR, D’Sa ASV, et al (2014) Cutting-edge analysis of extracellular microparticles using ImageStream(X) imaging flow cytometry. Sci Rep 4:5237

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann K (2005) System Integration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chan AWH (2014) Atlas of Liver Pathology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Luepschen H, Leonhardt S, Putensen C (2010) Measuring Stroke Volume Using Electrical Impedance Tomography. In: Vincent J-L (ed) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY, pp 46–55

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 Journal of Game Theory.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Ants Devour Dead Gecko. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-devour-dead-gecko/. 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 (2009) Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Challenges in Responding to Task Force Recommendations. 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

Selis AH (2010) Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. 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

Barry E, Kishkovsky S (2011) Joy in Russia As a Symbol Of the Arts Reopens. New York Times A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonhardt 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Leonhardt 2002; Amamoto and Arlotta 2014).

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

Two authors: (Amamoto and Arlotta 2014)
Three or more authors: (Headland et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Game Theory
Abbreviation	Int. J. Game Theory
ISSN (print)	0020-7276
ISSN (online)	1432-1270
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Economics and Econometrics Mathematics (miscellaneous) Statistics and Probability Social Sciences (miscellaneous)