How to format your references using the Digital Creativity citation style

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

DeWeerdt, Sarah. 2013. “Genetics: Written in Blood.” Nature 498 (7455): S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Egbert, G. D., and R. D. Ray. 2000. “Significant Dissipation of Tidal Energy in the Deep Ocean Inferred from Satellite Altimeter Data.” Nature 405 (6788): 775–778.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heimpel, Moritz, Jonathan Aurnou, and Johannes Wicht. 2005. “Simulation of Equatorial and High-Latitude Jets on Jupiter in a Deep Convection Model.” Nature 438 (7065): 193–196.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cruz, Francisco W., Jr, Stephen J. Burns, Ivo Karmann, Warren D. Sharp, Mathias Vuille, Andrea O. Cardoso, José A. Ferrari, Pedro L. Silva Dias, and Oduvaldo Viana. 2005. “Insolation-Driven Changes in Atmospheric Circulation over the Past 116,000 Years in Subtropical Brazil.” Nature 434 (7029): 63–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, Tim. 2014. Investing Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kusuoka, S., and T. Maruyama, eds. 2009. Advances in Mathematical Economics. Vol. 12. Advance in Mathematical Economics. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Fuentes, Rubén, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, and Juan Pavón. 2006. “Requirements Elicitation for Agent-Based Applications.” In Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI: 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers, edited by Jörg P. Müller and Franco Zambonelli, 40–53. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Digital Creativity.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Climate Change Could Stir Up Competition For Plants Living In The Swiss Alps.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 17. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-change-could-stir-competition-plants-living-swiss-alps/.

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. 122632. Washington, DC: 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

Aldridge, Kacee N. 2015. “The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2006. “Former Playmate Wins Procedural Round in Fight Over Estate.” New York Times, May 2, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt 2013).
This sentence cites two references (DeWeerdt 2013; Egbert and Ray 2000).

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

Two authors: (Egbert and Ray 2000)
Three authors: (Heimpel, Aurnou, and Wicht 2005)
4 or more authors: (Cruz et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Digital Creativity
ISSN (print)	1462-6268
ISSN (online)	1744-3806
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Human-Computer Interaction