How to format your references using the Strategic Design Research Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategic Design Research Journal (SDRJ). 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

GOLDSTON D. 2008. Getting it across. Nature, 454(7200):16.

A journal article with 2 authors

VAN DER MERWE PA.; DAVIS SJ. 2002. Immunology. The immunological synapse--a multitasking system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559):1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

HUSALE S.; PERSSON HHJ.; SAHIN O. 2009. DNA nanomechanics allows direct digital detection of complementary DNA and microRNA targets. Nature, 462(7276):1075–1078.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

CANALI E.; BOLCHI A.; SPAGNOLI G.; SEITZ H.; RUBIO I.; PERTINHEZ TA.; MÜLLER M.; OTTONELLO S. 2014. A high-performance thioredoxin-based scaffold for peptide immunogen construction: proof-of-concept testing with a human papillomavirus epitope. Scientific reports, 44729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

SAGUET P. 2013. Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. Hoboken, NJ USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

VELÁZQUEZ A. 2016. Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification: Mexican and Global Patterns. Cham, Springer International Publishing. XXIII, 143 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

MALO MÁ.; PAGÁN R. 2014. Hiring Workers with Disabilities When a Quota Requirement Exists: The Relevance of Firm’s Size. In: MALO MÁ and SCIULLI D (eds.) Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies. Cham, 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 Strategic Design Research Journal.

Blog post

ANDREW E. 2014. Quadriplegic Man Uses Thoughts To Move His Limb. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/quadriplegic-man-uses-thoughts-move-his-limb/. Accessed on: October 30, 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. 2017. Indian Affairs: Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight and Accountability for School Safety Inspections. GAO-17-421. 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

READY C. 2014. Preventing childhood obesity in foster children: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

SHEAR MD.; NIXON R. 2017. Vetting Is Little Changed Since Calls for Travel Ban. New York Times. June 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2008; van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Canali et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Design Research Journal
ISSN (print)	1984-2988
Scope