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

Shubik, M. (2015) RETROSPECTIVE. John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928-2015). Science (New York, N.Y.), 348, 1324.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tans, S.J., Dekker, C. (2000) Potential Modulations along Carbon Nanotubes. Nature, 404, 834–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton, R., Vannice, K.S., Vosshall, L.B. (2007) An Essential Role for a CD36-Related Receptor in Pheromone Detection in Drosophila. Nature, 450, 289–93.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rodrigues, A.S.L., Ewers, R.M., Parry, L., Souza, C., Jr, Veríssimo, A., Balmford, A. (2009) Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324, 1435–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiss, E., Shadomy, H.J., Lyon, G.M., III (2011) Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Davim, J.P. (ed.) (2011) Machining of Hard Materials. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, S.C. (2014) Image-Based Rendering. In Ikeuchi, K. (ed.), Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 392–9.

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

Taub, B. (2016) The Membranes Covering The Brain Are Loaded With Neuronal Stem Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/membranes-covering-loaded-neuronal-stem-cells/ [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 (1973) Federal Catalog Program: Progress and Problems in Attaining a Uniform Identification System for Supplies ( No. B-146778). 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

Thompson, T. (2010) Assessing the Determinants of Information Technology Adoption in Jamaica’s Public Sector Using the Technology Acceptance Model. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Rojas, R., Walsh, M.W. (2017) Hartford, With Finances in Disarray, Veers Toward Bankruptcy. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shubik, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shubik, 2015; Tans & Dekker, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Tans & Dekker, 2000)
Three authors: (Benton, Vannice & Vosshall, 2007)
4 or more authors: (Rodrigues et al., 2009)

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