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

Xie, T. (2010). Tunable polymer multi-shape memory effect. Nature, 464(7286), 267–270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cranch, G. A., & Foster, S. (2012). Comment on “Probing the ultimate limit of fiber-optic strain sensing.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6066), 286; author reply 286.

A journal article with 3 authors

Joliveau, E., Smith, J., & Wolfe, J. (2004). Acoustics: tuning of vocal tract resonance by sopranos. Nature, 427(6970), 116.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hill, J. P., Jin, W., Kosaka, A., Fukushima, T., Ichihara, H., Shimomura, T., Ito, K., Hashizume, T., Ishii, N., & Aida, T. (2004). Self-assembled hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene graphitic nanotube. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1481–1483.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Whitcomb, C. A., & Whitcomb, L. E. (2013). Effective Interpersonal and Team Communication Skills for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Martínez-Avendaño, R. A. (2007). An Introduction to Operators on the Hardy-Hilbert Space (P. Rosenthal, Ed.; Vol. 237). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dodero, J. M., Ruiz-Rube, I., & Traverso, I. (2014). Automating Technical Reviews in Software Forges and Repositories Based on Linked Data. In S. Closs, R. Studer, E. Garoufallou, & M.-A. Sicilia (Eds.), Metadata and Semantics Research: 8th Research Conference, MTSR 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 27-29, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 30–41). Springer International Publishing.

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, August 5). Hubble Witnesses The Dying Moments Of A Star. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2006). Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improved Planning and Acquisition Strategies Can Help Address Operational Challenges (GAO-06-610T). 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

Sylvain, O. (2010). Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Crow, K. (2001, September 30). Untouched, But Touched. New York Times, 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xie, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cranch & Foster, 2012; Xie, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cranch & Foster, 2012)
Three authors: (Joliveau et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Hill et al., 2004)

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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