How to format your references using the Games and Economic Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Games and Economic Behavior. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sohn, E., 2015. Israel: Research without prejudice. Nature 525, S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simpson, S.J., Raubenheimer, D., 2014. Perspective: Tricks of the trade. Nature 508, S66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pilet, S., Baker, M.B., Stolper, E.M., 2008. Metasomatized lithosphere and the origin of alkaline lavas. Science 320, 916–919.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Watkins, R.E., Wisely, G.B., Moore, L.B., Collins, J.L., Lambert, M.H., Williams, S.P., Willson, T.M., Kliewer, S.A., Redinbo, M.R., 2001. The human nuclear xenobiotic receptor PXR: structural determinants of directed promiscuity. Science 292, 2329–2333.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott, S., 2017. AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Campbell, G. (Ed.), 2016. Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

de Cicco, R.L., Santucci-Pereira, J., Moral, R., Peri, S., Slifker, M., Russo, I.H., Russo, P.A., Wang, R., Russo, J., 2011. Endocrine Disruptors Affect the Genomic Profile of the Rat Mammary Gland at Different Developmental Stages, in: Russo, J. (Ed.), Environment and Breast Cancer. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 69–101.

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 Games and Economic Behavior.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. NASA Snaps Image Of Saturn’s Other Death Star Moon [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-snaps-image-of-saturns-other-death-star-moon/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed (No. GAO-12-45). 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

Romer, C., 2017. WhatsUpDoc: A Patient Portal Technology (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2016. Venice by Way of New York. New York Times AR46.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Simpson and Raubenheimer, 2014; Sohn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Simpson and Raubenheimer, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Watkins et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Games and Economic Behavior
Abbreviation	Games Econ. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0899-8256
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance