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]

P. Smaglik, Salaries in the balance, Nature 457 (2009) 750–751.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Neilsen, J.C. Lee, Accretion disk winds as the jet suppression mechanism in the microquasar GRS 1915+105, Nature 458 (2009) 481–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.Q. Grafton, T. Kompas, R.W. Hilborn, Economics of overexploitation revisited, Science 318 (2007) 1601.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Feuillet-Palma, Y. Todorov, A. Vasanelli, C. Sirtori, Strong near field enhancement in THz nano-antenna arrays, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Trayed and Packed Columns, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

S.K. Sharma, R. Sanghi, eds., Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Păun, Some Open Problems about Catalytic, Numerical, and Spiking Neural P Systems, in: A. Alhazov, S. Cojocaru, M. Gheorghe, Y. Rogozhin, G. Rozenberg, A. Salomaa (Eds.), Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 33–39.

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. O`Callaghan, US Astronaut Scott Kelly Breaks Record For Most Time In Space, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/us-astronaut-scott-kelly-breaks-record-most-time-space/ (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, Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. De los Santos, Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

B. Rothenberg, In Comeback From Injury, Stephens Falls Short Against Another American, New York Times (2017) B9.

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