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

Gong, P. (2012). Cultural history holds back Chinese research. Nature, 481(7382), 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkovits, B. D., & Mayr, C. (2015). Alternative 3’ UTRs act as scaffolds to regulate membrane protein localization. Nature, 522(7556), 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier, A. E., GrandPre, T., & Strittmatter, S. M. (2001). Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature, 409(6818), 341–346.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Markovitsi, D., Talbot, F., Gustavsson, T., Onidas, D., Lazzarotto, E., & Marguet, S. (2006). Molecular spectroscopy: complexity of excited-state dynamics in DNA. Nature, 441(7094), E7; discussion E8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brillson, L. J. (2016). An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stippich, C. (Ed.). (2015). Clinical Functional MRI: Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging (2nd ed. 2015.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujiwara, H., Iwama, K., & Sekiguchi, Y. (2008). Average-Case Competitive Analyses for One-Way Trading. In X. Hu & J. Wang (Eds.), Computing and Combinatorics: 14th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2008 Dalian, China, June 27-29, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 41–51). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 19). Astronomers Produce Detailed Map Of Hydrogen In The Milky Way. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2016). Emergency Management: Improved Federal Coordination Could Better Assist K-12 Schools Prepare for Emergencies (No. GAO-16-144). 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

Meyer-Barrett, J. M. (2017). Exercising Their Privilege to Borrow: A Demonstrated Understanding of the Obligation of Student Loans in a Community College (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Markoff, J. (2017, June 7). Technologists Face Hurdles Before They Take Wheel. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gong 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Berkovits and Mayr 2015; Gong 2012).

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

Two authors: (Berkovits and Mayr 2015)
Three or more authors: (Markovitsi et al. 2006)

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