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

Sekercioglu CH (2011) Ecology. Functional extinctions of bird pollinators cause plant declines. Science 331:1019–1020

A journal article with 2 authors

Dye C, Williams BG (2010) The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis. Science 328:856–861

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales R, Di Matteo T, Aste T (2014) Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci Rep 4:4589

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Majumder M, Chopra N, Andrews R, Hinds BJ (2005) Nanoscale hydrodynamics: enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes. Nature 438:44

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mariño PP (2016) Optimization of Computer Networks - Modeling and Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Aspin DN (ed) (2007) Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Celikyilmaz A, Türksen IB (2009) Fuzzy Functions Approach. In: Türksen IB (ed) Modeling Uncertainty with Fuzzy Logic: With Recent Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 105–147

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

Hale T (2016) Thunderstorm In Australia Sparks Thousands Of Asthma Attacks and Kills Four People. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/thunderstorm-in-australia-sparks-thousands-of-asthma-attacks-and-kills-four-people/. 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 (1977) Potential Problems That Should Be Considered in Evaluating the Experimental Technology Incentives Program. 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

Ibarra AL (2017) Novice Clinicians and the Experience of Transcendence in Clinical Training and Supervision. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Williams J (2017) Backstage With Van Halen. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sekercioglu 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dye and Williams 2010; Sekercioglu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dye and Williams 2010)
Three or more authors: (Majumder et al. 2005)

About the journal

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