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 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

Alonso, J.-M. (2006). Neuroscience. Neurons find strength through synchrony in the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1604–1605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spergel, D., & Keating, B. (2015). Cosmology: The oldest cosmic light. Nature, 518(7538), 170–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharma, B., Mandani, S., & Sarma, T. K. (2013). Biogenic growth of alloys and core-shell nanostructures using urease as a nanoreactor at ambient conditions. Scientific reports, 3, 2601.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bilde, T., Foged, A., Schilling, N., & Arnqvist, G. (2009). Postmating sexual selection favors males that sire offspring with low fitness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1705–1706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steland, A. (2012). Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mortier, R. M., Fox, M. F., & Orszulik, S. T. (Eds.). (2010). Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Huckle, B. D., & Zhang, Z. (2011). Maintenance and Protection of Probiotics. In M.-T. Liong (Ed.), Probiotics: Biology, Genetics and Health Aspects (pp. 87–108). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 1). Three Problems With The Way We Think About Nuclear Power. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/three-problems-way-we-think-about-nuclear-power/. 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. (1990). Promising Practice: Private Programs Guaranteeing Student Aid for Higher Education (No. PEMD-90-16). 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

Cox, V. (2015). A Quantitative Analysis of the Yield Curve: Forecasting the Length and End of a Recession (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Hodara, S. (2017, February 15). Suburban Touches With a Bustling Downtown. New York Times, p. RE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alonso 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Alonso 2006; Spergel and Keating 2015).

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

Two authors: (Spergel and Keating 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bilde et al. 2009)

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