How to format your references using the Dynamic Games and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dynamic Games and Applications. 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 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

Marchio EA (2015) My metamorphosis. Science 347:206

A journal article with 2 authors

Largeron M, Fleury M-B (2013) Chemistry. Bioinspired oxidation catalysts. Science 339:43–44

A journal article with 3 authors

Hahnloser RHR, Kozhevnikov AA, Fee MS (2002) An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird. Nature 419:65–70

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wong K-K, Maser RS, Bachoo RM, et al (2003) Telomere dysfunction and Atm deficiency compromises organ homeostasis and accelerates ageing. Nature 421:643–648

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros TF (2010) Colloids in Paints. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Link S, Trujillo JC (2016) Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2016 Workshops, AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME, and WM2SP, Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Isla A (2015) Greening Costa Rica. In: Mitchell RC, Moore SA (eds) Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 73–93

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 Dynamic Games and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Researchers Strap Weighted Tail to Chickens to Understand Dinosaur Movements. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1970) Possible Irregularities in the Operation of a Former Neighborhood Youth Corps Project. 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

Rodriguez F (2009) A historical analysis of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States. 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

Dinardo K (2016) A Lakeside Art Deco Hotel Shines Anew. New York Times TR3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Dynamic Games and Applications
Abbreviation	Dyn. Games Appl.
ISSN (print)	2153-0785
ISSN (online)	2153-0793
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability