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]

K. Bourzac, Batteries: 4 big questions, Nature 526 (2015) S105.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.J. Moar, K.J. Anilkumar, Plant science. The power of the pyramid, Science 318 (2007) 1561–1562.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. Barnes, J. Ieda, S. Maekawa, Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy and the electric field control of magnetism, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4105.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.W. DePaolo, V. Abadie, F. Tang, H. Fehlner-Peach, J.A. Hall, W. Wang, E.V. Marietta, D.D. Kasarda, T.A. Waldmann, J.A. Murray, C. Semrad, S.S. Kupfer, Y. Belkaid, S. Guandalini, B. Jabri, Co-adjuvant effects of retinoic acid and IL-15 induce inflammatory immunity to dietary antigens, Nature 471 (2011) 220–224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Grose, Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

R. Valenta, R.L. Coffman, eds., Vaccines against Allergies, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Gao, Integral Sliding Mode Controller for an Uncertain Network Control System with Delay, in: W.E. Wong, T. Zhu (Eds.), Computer Engineering and Networking: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Network (CENet2013), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 31–38.

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, Watch A Katana-Wielding Robot Battle A Human Samurai Sword Master, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-katana-wielding-robot-battle-human-samurai-sword-master/ (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, House of Representatives’ Amendment to the Energy Research and Development Administration’s Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1978, 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]

G.M. Valencia, A Phenomenological Study of Adults Earning a Graduate Degree after Age 60, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2015.

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. Kanter, European Leaders, Reeling, Meet to Weigh Fallout of U.S. Election, New York Times (2016) A9.

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