How to format your references using the Journal of Global Policy and Governance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Policy and 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

Velev OD (2006) Materials science. Self-assembly of unusual nanoparticle crystals. Science 312:376–377

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun F, He S (2014) Extending the scanning angle of a phased array antenna by using a null-space medium. Sci Rep 4:6832

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang K, Dickinson RE, Liang S (2009) Clear sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007. Science 323:1468–1470

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Levitus S, Antonov JI, Wang J, et al (2001) Anthropogenic warming of Earth’s climate system. Science 292:267–270

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Omura Y, Mallik A, Matsuo N (2016) MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Batiz-Lazo B, Efthymiou L (eds) (2016) The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Rosselli F (2006) The FANC B, E, F and G Genes and Their Products. In: Kirk SH (ed) Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anemia. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 54–60

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 Journal of Global Policy and Governance.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Were Beethoven’s Masterpieces Influenced by a Cardiac Arrhythmia? In: IFLScience. 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 (1983) GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 2. 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

Van Vlack KA (2012) Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails. 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

Kelly C (2010) Long-Separated Portraits, on a Wall Together at Last. New York Times F29

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Velev 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Velev 2006; Sun and He 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sun and He 2014)
Three or more authors: (Levitus et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Global Policy and Governance
ISSN (print)	2194-7740
ISSN (online)	2194-7759
Scope