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

Norman, Michael R. 2011. “The Challenge of Unconventional Superconductivity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6026): 196–200.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scott, Stephen H., and Frédéric Crevecoeur. 2014. “Neuroscience: Feedback Throttled down for Smooth Moves.” Nature 509 (7498): 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Duan-Bing, Rui Xiao, and An Zeng. 2014. “Predicting the Evolution of Spreading on Complex Networks.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6108.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bowers, Peter M., Shawn J. Cokus, David Eisenberg, and Todd O. Yeates. 2004. “Use of Logic Relationships to Decipher Protein Network Organization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5705): 2246–2249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misra, Devendra K. 2006. Practical Electromagnetics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Qi, Jiaguo, and Kyle T. Evered, eds. 2008. Environmental Problems of Central Asia and Their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Carter, Mick, and Dave Matthews. 2012. “Configuration Management and Version Control in Earth System Modelling.” In Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models, edited by Graham Riley, Reinhard Budich, and René Redler, 31–43. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Digital Creativity.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Shortlist Finalists Have Been Announced for Sony World Photography Awards.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2001. NASA: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges. GAO-01-868. 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

Dale, Ben. 2012. “Changing How We Change: A Case Study of Escondido Union School District.” 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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2006. “Slow Down and Hide Your Wallet: Traffic Police Ahead.” New York Times, April 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norman 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Norman 2011; Scott and Crevecoeur 2014).

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

Two authors: (Scott and Crevecoeur 2014)
Three authors: (Chen, Xiao, and Zeng 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bowers et al. 2004)

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