How to format your references using the Games citation style

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

Shelach, G. Anthropology. On the Invention of Pottery. Science 2012, 336, 1644–1645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X.; Chory, J. Brassinosteroids Regulate Dissociation of BKI1, a Negative Regulator of BRI1 Signaling, from the Plasma Membrane. Science 2006, 313, 1118–1122.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryckman, J.D.; Jiao, Y.; Weiss, S.M. Three-Dimensional Patterning and Morphological Control of Porous Nanomaterials by Gray-Scale Direct Imprinting. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1502.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Endres, N.F.; Yoshioka, C.; Milligan, R.A.; Vale, R.D. A Lever-Arm Rotation Drives Motility of the Minus-End-Directed Kinesin Ncd. Nature 2006, 439, 875–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ccps Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017; ISBN 9781119378204.

An edited book

Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics and Graph Theory: 7th China-Japan Conference, CJCDGCGT 2005, Tianjin, China, November 18-20, 2005, Xi’an, China, November 22-24, 2005, Revised Selected Papers; Akiyama, J., Chen, W.Y.C., Kano, M., Li, X., Yu, Q., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; Vol. 4381; ISBN 9783540706656.

A chapter in an edited book

Bucksbaum, P.H. Ultrafast Quantum Control in Atoms and Molecules. In Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics; Thomson, R., Leburn, C., Reid, D., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 105–128 ISBN 9783319000169.

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 Games.

Blog post

Davis, J. New Drug Therapies Can Treat Even The Most Resistant Strains Of TB (accessed on 30 October 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 DHS IT Contracting: Steps Taken to Enhance EAGLE II Small Business Opportunities, but Better Assessment Data Needed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Renteria, Y. Respite Services for Post-Adoption Families Transitioning from the Child Welfare System: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Williams, J. Hank’s Long Suffering. New York Times 2016, BR4.

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	Games
Abbreviation	Games
ISSN (online)	2073-4336
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Applied Mathematics Statistics and Probability