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

Wodtke AM (2006) Chemistry. Chemistry in a computer: advancing the in silico dream. Science 312:64–65

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer L, Milhollin G (2004) Nuclear safety. Brazil’s nuclear puzzle. Science 306:617

A journal article with 3 authors

Foley S, Tiepolo M, Vannucci R (2002) Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones. Nature 417:837–840

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu X, Yu Y, Liu B, et al (2003) Induction of APOBEC3G ubiquitination and degradation by an HIV-1 Vif-Cul5-SCF complex. Science 302:1056–1060

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cook M (2008) Personnel Selection. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Brooks M (2013) Developing B2B Social Communities: KEYS TO GROWTH, INNOVATION, AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Prieur C (2006) Recent results on weak dependence for causal sequences. Statistical applications to dynamical systems. In: Bertail P, Soulier P, Doukhan P (eds) Dependence in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 87–104

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

Luntz S (2014) Embryonic Stem Cells Cloned From Adult Skin. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-cloned-adult-skin/. 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 (1971) Criteria Needed for Measuring Technical Assistance Results and Contractor Performance. 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

Voss J (2013) Supported housing program for severely mentally ill homeless individuals: A grant proposal. 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

Bernard TS (2017) Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation Into Sweeping Equifax Data Breach. New York Times B7

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