How to format your references using the Creativity and Innovation Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Creativity and Innovation Management. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2003) Nobel Laureate Slams Misconduct Smear. Nature, 421, 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron, J.L., Bynum, W.F. (2003) 1903 and All That. Nature, 421, 15–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Møller, P.R., Nielsen, J.G., Fossen, I. (2003) Fish Migration: Patagonian Toothfish Found off Greenland. Nature, 421, 599.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Begum, N.A., Kinoshita, K., Kakazu, N., Muramatsu, M., Nagaoka, H., Shinkura, R., Biniszkiewicz, D., Boyer, L.A., Jaenisch, R., Honjo, T. (2004) Uracil DNA Glycosylase Activity Is Dispensable for Immunoglobulin Class Switch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 1160–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, H. (2013) Angewandte Baudynamik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Grizzard, J.D. (2008) Cardiovascular MRI in Practice: A Teaching File Approach. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Stroo, H.F., Norris, R.D. (2009) Alternatives For In Situ Bioremediation Of Perchlorate. In Borden, R.C., Coates, J.D., Cox, E.E., Downey, D.C., Evans, P.J., Hatzinger, P.B., Henry, B.M., Jackson, W.A., Krug, T.A., Lieberman, M.T., Loehr, R.C., Norris, R.D., Nzengung, V.A., Perlmutter, M.W., Schaefer, C.E., Stroo, H.F., Ward, C.H., Winstead, C.J., Wolfe, C., Stroo, H. F. and Ward, C. H. (eds.), In Situ Bioremediation of Perchlorate in Groundwater. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–90.

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 Creativity and Innovation Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) How To Take The Pressure Off The Cost Of Our Water Supply [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-take-pressure-cost-our-water-supply/ [accessed on 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 (2016) Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Promote Transparency and Open Government to Enhance Civic Engagement and Foster Innovation ( No. D15091). 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

Norton, D.A. (2013) O’Connor’s Agent Casual Theory of Free Will: An Evaluation. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Sulcas, R. (2014) Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, 75. New York Times, B19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Heilbron & Bynum, 2003; Schiermeier, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron & Bynum, 2003)
Three authors: (Møller, Nielsen & Fossen, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Begum et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Creativity and Innovation Management
Abbreviation	Creat. Innov. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0963-1690
ISSN (online)	1467-8691
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management