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:

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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Macfarlane, A. M. (2011). Nuclear policy. The overlooked back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1225–1226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gordon, L. M., & Joester, D. (2011). Nanoscale chemical tomography of buried organic-inorganic interfaces in the chiton tooth. Nature, 469(7329), 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel, D. A., Doney, S. C., & Yoder, J. A. (2002). The North Atlantic spring phytoplankton bloom and Sverdrup’s critical depth hypothesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5568), 730–733.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baudat, F., Buard, J., Grey, C., Fledel-Alon, A., Ober, C., Przeworski, M., et al. (2010). PRDM9 is a major determinant of meiotic recombination hotspots in humans and mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5967), 836–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, J. (2014). Central Counterparties. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cross, T., & Ambrose, D. (Eds.). (2009). Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

KlimaŠauskas, S., LiutkeviČiŪtĖ, Z., & DaujotytĖ, D. (2009). Biophysical Approaches To Study Dna Base Flipping. In J. Puglisi (Ed.), Biophysics and the Challenges of Emerging Threats (pp. 51–64). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Hale, T. (2017, March 30). This Bull Shark Was Found In The Middle Of The Road In Australia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-bull-shark-was-found-in-the-middle-of-the-road-in-australia/. 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. (1976). Recent Development in Science and Technology: Progress and Concerns (No. 094655). 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

Greene, B. (2017). Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Lyman, R., & Walsh, M. W. (2014, February 24). Public Pension Tabs Multiply as States Defer Costs and Hard Choices. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macfarlane 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gordon and Joester 2011; Macfarlane 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gordon and Joester 2011)
Three or more authors: (Baudat et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Gambling Studies
Abbreviation	J. Gambl. Stud.
ISSN (online)	1573-3602
Scope	General Psychology Sociology and Political Science