How to format your references using the Economics of Governance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics of 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

MacLeod K (2000) The Oort crowd. Nature 406:129

A journal article with 2 authors

Garrett TJ, Zhao C (2006) Increased Arctic cloud longwave emissivity associated with pollution from mid-latitudes. Nature 440:787–789

A journal article with 3 authors

Neves SR, Ram PT, Iyengar R (2002) G protein pathways. Science 296:1636–1639

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chin JW, Cropp TA, Anderson JC, et al (2003) An expanded eukaryotic genetic code. Science 301:964–967

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph C (2013) Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Fan J, Ritov Y, Wu CFJ (eds) (2014) Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Escadafal R, Chehbouni AG (2008) Monitoring Arid Land Surfaces With Earth Observation Techniques: Examples Of Intense And Extensive Land Uses. In: Qi J, Evered KT (eds) Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–72

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 Economics of Governance.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) New Analysis Suggests Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Destabilizing. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-s-magnetic-field-about-flip/. 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 (2000) Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the National Plan for Information Systems Protection. 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

Johnson R (2010) Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody.” 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

Branch J (2016) Short, Hard Climb (So He Hoped). New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (MacLeod 2000).
This sentence cites two references (MacLeod 2000; Garrett and Zhao 2006).

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

Two authors: (Garrett and Zhao 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chin et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics of Governance
Abbreviation	Econ. Gov.
ISSN (print)	1435-6104
ISSN (online)	1435-8131
Scope	Business and International Management General Economics, Econometrics and Finance