How to format your references using the Journal of Gambling Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Kiessling, A. A. (2005). Eggs alone. Nature, 434(7030), 145.
A journal article with 2 authors
de Groot, B. L., & Grubmüller, H. (2001). Water permeation across biological membranes: mechanism and dynamics of aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2353–2357.
A journal article with 3 authors
Chen, A. E., Ginty, D. D., & Fan, C.-M. (2005). Protein kinase A signalling via CREB controls myogenesis induced by Wnt proteins. Nature, 433(7023), 317–322.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Gänsicke, B. T., Marsh, T. R., Southworth, J., & Rebassa-Mansergas, A. (2006). A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5807), 1908–1910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Sahinoglu, M. (2016). Cyber-Risk Informatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Ross, C. L. (2014). Health Impact Assessment in the United States. (M. Orenstein & N. Botchwey, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Lee, Y. P., Rhee, J. Y., Yoo, Y. J., & Kim, K. W. (2016). MMPA, Based on Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency. In J. Y. Rhee, Y. J. Yoo, & K. W. Kim (Eds.), Metamaterials for Perfect Absorption (pp. 99–112). Singapore: Springer.

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 Journal of Gambling Studies.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, June 16). With Encyclical, Pope Francis Elevates Environmental Justice. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/encyclical-pope-francis-elevates-environmental-justice/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2004). Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (No. GAO-04-548). Washington, DC: 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
Wahl, R. J. (2012). Agustín Barrios and musical identity: Tangos in early twentieth-century guitar repertory (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Saslow, L. (2006, September 24). Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiessling 2005).
This sentence cites two references (de Groot and Grubmüller 2001; Kiessling 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (de Groot and Grubmüller 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Gänsicke et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Gambling Studies
AbbreviationJ. Gambl. Stud.
ISSN (online)1573-3602
ScopeGeneral Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

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