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

Keeling RF (2007) Atmosphere. Deglaciation mysteries. Science 316:1440–1441

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Sullivan D, Pearce EL (2015) Immunology. Expanding the role of metabolism in T cells. Science 348:976–977

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferrari G, Stornaiuolo A, Mavilio F (2001) Failure to correct murine muscular dystrophy. Nature 411:1014–1015

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rosas-Ballina M, Olofsson PS, Ochani M, et al (2011) Acetylcholine-synthesizing T cells relay neural signals in a vagus nerve circuit. Science 334:98–101

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waller FJ (2011) Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Taylor P (2016) Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Vehlow A, Storch K, Matzke D, Cordes N (2016) Molecular Targeting of Integrins and Integrin-Associated Signaling Networks in Radiation Oncology. In: Baumann M, Krause M, Cordes N (eds) Molecular Radio-Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 89–106

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

Davis J (2017) Great Barrier Reef Under Threat Of Being Listed A “World Heritage Site In Danger.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/great-barrier-reef-under-threat-of-being-listed-a-world-heritage-site-in-danger/. 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 (2008) DOD Business Transformation: Air Force’s Current Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved. 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

Kang H (2006) Essays on Methodologies in Contingent Valuation and the Sustainable Management of Common Pool Resources. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Chavez L (2006) American Dreams, Foreign Flags. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keeling 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Keeling 2007; O’Sullivan and Pearce 2015).

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

Two authors: (O’Sullivan and Pearce 2015)
Three or more authors: (Rosas-Ballina et al. 2011)

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)