How to format your references using the Entertainment Computing citation style

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

[1]

G. Gibson, Evolution. The synthesis and evolution of a supermodel, Science. 307 (2005) 1890–1891.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Jaspars, G. Challis, Microbiology: a talented genus, Nature. 506 (2014) 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Finkel, C.-X. Deng, R. Mostoslavsky, Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins, Nature. 460 (2009) 587–591.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Jiang, J. Tang, Y. Wang, W. Zhao, Y. Duan, Characterization of argon direct-current glow discharge with a longitudinal electric field applied at ambient air, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6323.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Corsi, M. Dulieu, The Marketing of Technology Intensive Products and Services, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Orey, S.A. Jones, R.M. Branch, eds., Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 36, 2011, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Böcherer, S. Nagaoka, On p-Adic Properties of Siegel Modular Forms, in: B. Heim, M. Al-Baali, T. Ibukiyama, F. Rupp (Eds.), Automorphic Forms: Research in Number Theory from Oman, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 47–66.

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 Entertainment Computing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, How to turn water into wine in your own kitchen, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-turn-water-wine-your-own-kitchen/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Proposed Amendments to the 1978 Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Bill, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Anaya, Animo clinician training program for detection and treatment of depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression in low income Latina women a grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Patching Together a Lineup, the Mets Come Apart Against the Nationals, New York Times. (2017) D3.

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	Entertainment Computing
Abbreviation	Entertain. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1875-9521
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Software