How to format your references using the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. 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

Blobel, G. (2013). Christian de Duve (1917-2013). Nature, 498(7454), 300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill, A., & Cooke, G. (2014). Medicine. Hepatitis C can be cured globally, but at what cost? Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6193), 141–142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa, H., Aoki, T., & Furusawa, A. (2004). Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature, 431(7007), 430–433.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Masly, J. P., Jones, C. D., Noor, M. A. F., Locke, J., & Orr, H. A. (2006). Gene transposition as a cause of hybrid sterility in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1448–1450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rebonato, R. (2004). Volatility and Correlation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Wang, J., & Xie, X. (Eds.). (2009). Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Heart: From Bench to Bedside. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Z., Song, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, H., & Gao, S. (2014). The Catenary Vibration Response of High-Speed Electrified Railway Considering Horizontal Wind. In L. Jia, Z. Liu, Y. Qin, M. Zhao, & L. Diao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT2013)-Volume I (pp. 45–54). Springer.

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 International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 28). Ancient Minerals On Earth Can Help Explain The Early Solar System. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-minerals-earth-can-help-explain-early-solar-system/

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. (2015). School Nutrition: USDA Has Efforts Underway to Help Address Ongoing Challenges Implementing Changes in Nutrition Standards (GAO-15-656). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jujhavarapu, S. (2017). Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, February 17). The Dystopia Next Door. New York Times, C14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Blobel, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Blobel, 2013; Hill & Cooke, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hill & Cooke, 2014)
Three authors: (Yonezawa et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Masly et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation
ISSN (print)	2165-0349
ISSN (online)	2165-0357
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