How to format your references using the The Computer Games Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Computer Games Journal. 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

Check, E. (2003). US debates future of Iraqi scientists. Nature, 422(6934), 789.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deeks, S. G., & Barré-Sinoussi, F. (2012). Public health: Towards a cure for HIV. Nature, 487(7407), 293–294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson, T. J., Johnson, L. C., & Lowther, W. T. (2008). Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature, 451(7174), 98–101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, H., Xu, H., Zhou, Y., Zhang, J., Long, C., Li, S., et al. (2007). The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5814), 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, G. (2011). Dyslexia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Issa, T. (2015). Sustainable Design: HCI, Usability and Environmental Concerns. (P. Isaias, Ed.) (1st ed. 2015.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eladawi, A. E., Diab, T. O., & Elmetwally, H. T. (2016). Forming Temperature Investigation of Aluminum and Aluminum/Silicon Carbide Using Image Texture Features. In A. Öchsner & H. Altenbach (Eds.), Machining, Joining and Modifications of Advanced Materials (pp. 33–44). Singapore: 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 The Computer Games Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 6). Hypospadias: The Cause Of Penis Malformation Is Still A Matter Of Debate. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hypospadias-cause-penis-malformation-still-matter-debate/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1996). Space Station: Cost Control Difficulties Continue (No. T-NSIAD-96-210). 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

Ambaw, Y. (2017). Promoting the well-being of black student athletes: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Belson, K., & Pilon, M. (2012, August 5). Round One in Sprints to Jamaica; Briton Takes 10,000. New York Times, p. SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Deeks and Barré-Sinoussi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Deeks and Barré-Sinoussi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Computer Games Journal
ISSN (online)	2052-773X
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