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

Holmes EC (2004) Virology. 1918 and all that. Science 303:1787–1788

A journal article with 2 authors

Whalan S, Webster NS (2014) Sponge larval settlement cues: the role of microbial biofilms in a warming ocean. Sci Rep 4:4072

A journal article with 3 authors

Saether B-E, Engen S, Matthysen E (2002) Demographic characteristics and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds. Science 295:2070–2073

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dubnau J, Grady L, Kitamoto T, Tully T (2001) Disruption of neurotransmission in Drosophila mushroom body blocks retrieval but not acquisition of memory. Nature 411:476–480

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kromidas S (2014) Der HPLC-Experte. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Ramírez-Domínguez M (ed) (2016) Pancreatic Islet Isolation: From the Mouse to the Clinic. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

King RJ (2015) Graves’ Disease Associated with a Thyroid Nodule. In: Ajjan R, Orme SM (eds) Endocrinology and Diabetes: Case Studies, Questions and Commentaries. Springer, London, pp 25–30

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 E (2015) Bionic Power Trousers Could Help Us Get Up The Stairs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-power-trousers-could-help-us-get-stairs/. 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 (1995) SSI Disability Issues. 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

Sampson R (2010) The effects of foster care on children: A comparison of 18th century through modern day foster care practices. 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

Feeney K (2008) Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times NJ11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Holmes 2004; Whalan and Webster 2014).

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

Two authors: (Whalan and Webster 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dubnau et al. 2001)

About the journal

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