How to format your references using the Global Transitions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Transitions. 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

[1]

S. Frische, It is time for full disclosure of author contributions, Nature 489 (2012) 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.E. Schaefer, A. Pagnotta, An absence of ex-companion stars in the type Ia supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, Nature 481 (2012) 164–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O. Berton, C.-G. Hahn, M.E. Thase, Are we getting closer to valid translational models for major depression?, Science 338 (2012) 75–79.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Liu, J. Qu, W. Zhang, L. Tan, Y. Gao, Numerical evaluation of the scale problem on the wind flow of a windbreak, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.H. Blair, Energy Production Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J. Barjis, R. Pergl, E. Babkin, eds., Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation: 11th International Workshop, EOMAS 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Débarbat, Strasbourg Observatory: A Breeding Place for French Astronomical Instrumentation in the 20TH Century, in: A. Heck (Ed.), The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 133–151.

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 Global Transitions.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Telescope Made From Water Allows Astronomers To Look Into The Extreme Energy Universe, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Communications Commission: Direct Broadcast Satellite Public Interest Obligations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.J. Hong, Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

G.G. Gustines, For Archie Comics, a Return to Superheroes, New York Times (2011) B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Transitions
ISSN (print)	2589-7918
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