How to format your references using the International Gambling Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Gambling Studies. 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

Anderson, P. (2000). Consequences. Perhaps the biotech sector should have employed more philosophers. Nature, 405(6784), 281.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kofoed, E. M., & Vance, R. E. (2011). Innate immune recognition of bacterial ligands by NAIPs determines inflammasome specificity. Nature, 477(7366), 592–595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, H.-K., Bergmann, S., & Pandolfi, P. P. (2004). Cytoplasmic PML function in TGF-beta signalling. Nature, 431(7005), 205–211.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sato, Y., Yasuhara, K., Kikuchi, J.-I., & Sato, T. N. (2013). Synthetic cell division system: controlling equal vs. unequal divisions by design. Scientific Reports, 3, 3475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singer, B., & Fedorinchik, G. (2009). Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meneghini, F. (2012). Clinical Facial Analysis: Elements, Principles, and Techniques (P. Biondi, Ed.; 2nd ed. 2012). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seanosky, J., Jacques, D., Kumar, V., & Kinshuk. (2016). Security and Privacy in Bigdata Learning Analytics. In V. Vijayakumar & V. Neelanarayanan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges (ISBCC – 16’) (pp. 43–55). Springer International Publishing.

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 International Gambling Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 20). Is Venus Still Erupting? IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1970). Expenditure of Federal Funds by Timberlane Regional High School District, New Hampshire (B-164031(1)). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson-Tessi, M. (2010). Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, May 12). The Best Cities for Millennials. New York Times, RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anderson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson, 2000; Kofoed & Vance, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kofoed & Vance, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sato et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Gambling Studies
Abbreviation	Int. Gambl. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1445-9795
ISSN (online)	1479-4276
Scope	Applied Psychology