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

Crepp JR (2014) Astronomy. Improving planet-finding spectrometers. Science 346:809–810

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith JL, Sherman DH (2008) Biochemistry. An enzyme assembly line. Science 321:1304–1305

A journal article with 3 authors

Okabe Y, Sano T, Nagata S (2009) Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature 460:520–524

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Johnson J, Canning J, Kaneko T, et al (2004) Germline stem cells and follicular renewal in the postnatal mammalian ovary. Nature 428:145–150

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Church RL, Murray AT (2008) Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pfeifer T, Bellavista P (eds) (2009) Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009, Venice, Italy, October 26-27, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tol RSJ (2008) Climate Change: Regulating the Unknown. In: Storch H von, Tol RSJ, Flöser G (eds) Environmental Crises. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–51

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

Taub B (2016) Autism-Like Behavior In Mice Reversed After Treatment With A Common Gut Bacteria. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/autismlike-behavior-in-mice-reversed-after-treatment-with-a-common-gut-bacteria/. 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 (2013) Transportation Security: Action Needed to Strengthen TSA’s Security Threat Assessment Process. 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

Felarca CU (2012) A burning problem: Skin protection practices among college nursing students and non-nursing college students. 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

Rothenberg B (2017) Some Chafe at Rules Meant to Protect Youngest Girls. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crepp 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Smith and Sherman 2008; Crepp 2014).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Sherman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2004)

About the journal

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

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