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

Aanen DK (2014) Developmental Biology. How a long-lived fungus keeps mutations in check. Science 346:922–923

A journal article with 2 authors

Scott SH, Crevecoeur F (2014) Neuroscience: Feedback throttled down for smooth moves. Nature 509:38–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang X, Wang Y, Li M (2014) Selecting water-alcohol mixed solvent for synthesis of polydopamine nano-spheres using solubility parameter. Sci Rep 4:6070

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kröll J, Darmo J, Dhillon SS, et al (2007) Phase-resolved measurements of stimulated emission in a laser. Nature 449:698–701

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K (2005) Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Leung H, Chandra Mukhopadhyay S (2015) Intelligent Environmental Sensing. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chiu M-H (2013) International Response for Part I: Bridging the Gaps Between Policy and Practice on Equity for Science Education Reforms. In: Bianchini JA, Akerson VL, Barton AC, et al (eds) Moving the Equity Agenda Forward: Equity Research, Practice, and Policy in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–61

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) Weird Pulsating Aurorae May Be Caused By Low-Energy Electrons. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/weird-pulsating-aurorae-may-be-caused-low-energy-electrons/. 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 (1980) Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services. 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

Konggidinata MI (2017) Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Cooper BM (2017) The Tailor of 125th Street. New York Times ST1

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