How to format your references using the International Journal of Game Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Game Theory. 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

Neuzil CE (2000) Osmotic generation of “anomalous” fluid pressures in geological environments. Nature 403:182–184

A journal article with 2 authors

Li JW-H, Vederas JC (2009) Drug discovery and natural products: end of an era or an endless frontier? Science 325:161–165

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang M-K, Kim SJ, Kim HJ (2014) Fabrication of high performance thin-film transistors via pressure-induced nucleation. Sci Rep 4:6858

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wilson SI, Rydström A, Trimborn T, et al (2001) The status of Wnt signalling regulates neural and epidermal fates in the chick embryo. Nature 411:325–330

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coates M, Jenkins B (2010) Electrical Installation Calculations: For Compliance with BS 7671:2008. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Groenke SL, Hatch JA (eds) (2009) Critical Pedagogy and Teacher Education in the Neoliberal Era: Small Openings. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bernardi A, Decker B, Holz H, et al (2005) 1st Intelligent Office Appliances (IOA 2005): Knowledge Appliances in the Office of the Future. In: Althoff K-D, Dengel A, Bergmann R, et al. (eds) Professional Knowledge Management: Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–49

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 Journal of Game Theory.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Scientists Reveal How Gold Hitches A Ride Up To The Earth’s Crust. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-reveal-how-gold-hitches-ride-earths-crust/. 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 (1993) Justice Software Management. 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

Madigan JP (2008) Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Urbina I (2015) Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neuzil 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Neuzil 2000; Li and Vederas 2009).

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

Two authors: (Li and Vederas 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wilson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Game Theory
Abbreviation	Int. J. Game Theory
ISSN (print)	0020-7276
ISSN (online)	1432-1270
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Economics and Econometrics Mathematics (miscellaneous) Statistics and Probability Social Sciences (miscellaneous)