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

Dobson, A.P. Virology. What Links Bats to Emerging Infectious Diseases? Science 2005, 310, 628–629.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roth, M.S.; Deheyn, D.D. Effects of Cold Stress and Heat Stress on Coral Fluorescence in Reef-Building Corals. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lind, P.A.; Berg, O.G.; Andersson, D.I. Mutational Robustness of Ribosomal Protein Genes. Science 2010, 330, 825–827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hlawacek, G.; Puschnig, P.; Frank, P.; Winkler, A.; Ambrosch-Draxl, C.; Teichert, C. Characterization of Step-Edge Barriers in Organic Thin-Film Growth. Science 2008, 321, 108–111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maude, D. Global Private Banking and Wealth Management; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2006; ISBN 9781118673386.

An edited book

Różewski, P. Intelligent Open Learning Systems: Concepts, Models and Algorithms; Kusztina, E., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zaikin, O., Eds.; Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 22; ISBN 9783642226663.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, J.S.; Wong-Leung, J. Voids and Nanocavities in Silicon. In Materials Science with Ion Beams; Bernas, H., Ed.; Topics in Applied Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 113–146 ISBN 9783540887881.

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

Andrew, E. Smoking Pot Could Make You More Prone To False Memories Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/smoking-pot-could-make-you-more-prone-false-memories/ (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 NASA: More Knowledge Needed to Determine Best Alternatives to Provide Space Station Logistics Support; 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

Neil, S. A Turn from the Worst: Leadership Influences on the Successful Turnaround of a High-Poverty School. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2012.

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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2016, MM18.

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