How to format your references using the Digital Creativity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Creativity. 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

Ellis, G. F. 2000. “Dennis Sciama (1926-99).” Nature 403 (6771): 722.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, M., and S. Barash. 2000. “Neuronal Switching of Sensorimotor Transformations for Antisaccades.” Nature 408 (6815): 971–975.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pérez-Isidoro, Rosendo, F. J. Sierra-Valdez, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez. 2014. “Anesthetic Diffusion through Lipid Membranes Depends on the Protonation Rate.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7534.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Jia-Xiang, Yan-Jing Wang, Wei Zhang, Nai-Xing Wang, Cui-Bing Bai, Ya-Lan Xing, Yi-He Li, and Jia-Long Wen. 2014. “Selective Nickel- and Manganese-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross Coupling of Some α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids with Cyclic Ethers.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berk, Joseph. 2010. Cost Reduction and Optimization for Manufacturing and Industrial Companies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fog, Klaus. 2005. Storytelling: Branding in Practice. Edited by Christian Budtz and Baris Yakaboylu. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kikuchi, Mitsuru, and Masafumi Azumi. 2015. “Collisional Transport in Tokamak.” In Frontiers in Fusion Research II: Introduction to Modern Tokamak Physics, edited by Masafumi Azumi, 63–114. 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 Digital Creativity.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “Psychologist Reveals The 9 Most Common Dreams And What They Mean.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychologist-reveals-the-9-most-common-dreams-and-what-they-mean/.

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. 1990. Observations on Ohio’s Implementation of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986. T-HRD-90-12. 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

Satterlee, Richard T. 2009. “A Case Study of Undergraduate Student Employment at a Private University: Exploring the Effects of Social Class and Institutional Context.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Pilon, Mary. 2014. “For Coed Grand Slam Event, Reaction Seems to Be Mixed, Too.” New York Times, September 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ellis 2000; Zhang and Barash 2000).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Barash 2000)
Three authors: (Pérez-Isidoro, Sierra-Valdez, and Ruiz-Suárez 2014)
4 or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Digital Creativity
ISSN (print)	1462-6268
ISSN (online)	1744-3806
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Human-Computer Interaction