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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

H.R.J. Walters, Physics. Antimatter atomic physics, Science 330 (2010) 762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.L. Semmelhack, J.W. Wang, Select Drosophila glomeruli mediate innate olfactory attraction and aversion, Nature 459 (2009) 218–223.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.L. Hu, B. Chan, J.W.M. Bush, The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion, Nature 424 (2003) 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Ning, H. Du, F. Kong, J. Yang, Y. Han, M. Tian, Y. Zhang, One-dimensional weak antilocalization in single-crystal Bi2Te3 nanowires, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.P. Goldstein, The Psychology of Group Aggression, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

V.A. Melezhik, A.R. Prave, E.J. Hanski, A.E. Fallick, A. Lepland, L.R. Kump, H. Strauss, eds., Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.G. Aamodt, Using Background Checks in the Employee Selection Process, in: C. Hanvey, K. Sady (Eds.), Practitioner’s Guide to Legal Issues in Organizations, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 85–110.

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]

E. Andrew, America’s Electricity Grid Catches a Wave for the First Time, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/americas-electricity-grid-catches-wave-first-time/ (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, Hydra 70 Rocket: Recent Performance Has Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.E. Koenig, Leadership for the whole in the mythic field of C. G. Jung’s unconscious processes, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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]

G. Vecsey, In Assessing Agassi, The Title Tells It All, New York Times (2009) SP8.

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