How to format your references using the Dynamic Games and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dynamic Games and Applications. 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

Falkowski P (2012) Ocean Science: The power of plankton. Nature 483:S17-20

A journal article with 2 authors

Vecchi GA, Soden BJ (2007) Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity. Nature 450:1066–1070

A journal article with 3 authors

Duplessy JC, Roche DM, Kageyama M (2007) The deep ocean during the last interglacial period. Science 316:89–91

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Müller C, Schlindwein V, Eckstaller A, Miller H (2005) Singing icebergs. Science 310:1299

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosplock K (2017) The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maz’ya V (2007) Sharp Real-Part Theorems: A Unified Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chvála A, Cristaldi D, Donoval D, et al (2016) Discrete Power Devices and Power Modules. In: Bombieri N, Poncino M, Pravadelli G (eds) Smart Systems Integration and Simulation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 91–143

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 Dynamic Games and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Elephants Get Really Excited When Others Mate. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elephants-get-really-excited-when-others-mate/. 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 (2005) Air Traffic Control: Characteristics and Performance of Selected International Air Navigation Service Providers and Lessons Learned from Their Commercialization. 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

Hawkins JT (2017) A Private Solution to a Public Problem: Managing Hydraulic Fracturing Risks by Enhancing Private Governance through Mandatory Insurance Requirements. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Vecsey G (2011) Underdog’s Feat Is Inspiration for Cricket’s Dreamers. New York Times SP7

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	Dynamic Games and Applications
Abbreviation	Dyn. Games Appl.
ISSN (print)	2153-0785
ISSN (online)	2153-0793
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability