How to format your references using the Journal of Global Policy and Governance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Policy and Governance. 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

Baker M (2010) Whole-animal imaging: The whole picture. Nature 463:977–980

A journal article with 2 authors

Garnero EJ, McNamara AK (2008) Structure and dynamics of Earth’s lower mantle. Science 320:626–628

A journal article with 3 authors

Scaillet B, Pichavant M, Cioni R (2008) Upward migration of Vesuvius magma chamber over the past 20,000 years. Nature 455:216–219

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pilot F, Philippe J-M, Lemmers C, Lecuit T (2006) Spatial control of actin organization at adherens junctions by a synaptotagmin-like protein Btsz. Nature 442:580–584

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy DJ (2006) Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Cranefield S, Song I (eds) (2012) Agent Based Simulation for a Sustainable Society and Multi-agent Smart Computing: International Workshops, PRIMA 2011, Wollongong, Australia, November 14, 2011 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Leve FA, Hamilton BJ, Peck MA (2015) Dynamics of Momentum-Control Systems. In: Hamilton BJ, Peck MA (eds) Spacecraft Momentum Control Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–93

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 Global Policy and Governance.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) How To Save Inbred, Short-Faced Dogs Such As Pugs And Bulldogs From Poor Health. In: IFLScience. 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 (1996) EPA: Final Regulations for Revisions to the Federal Test Procedure for Emissions from Motor Vehicles. 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

Williams B (2017) The Impact on Reunification for Families with Incarcerated Parents: A Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Southall A (2016) Makeover Set for Police Building at Heart of a Sleeker Times Sq. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Garnero and McNamara 2008; Baker 2010).

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

Two authors: (Garnero and McNamara 2008)
Three or more authors: (Pilot et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Global Policy and Governance
ISSN (print)	2194-7740
ISSN (online)	2194-7759
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