How to format your references using the Strategic Design Research Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategic Design Research Journal (SDRJ). 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

RICE M. 2006. Physics. Superconductivity with a twist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5803):1248–1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

LEONHARDT U.; TYC T. 2009. Broadband invisibility by non-Euclidean cloaking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910):110–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

LOSOS JB.; HILLIS DM.; GREENE HW. 2012. Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6113):1428–1429.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

SKARNES WC.; ROSEN B.; WEST AP.; KOUTSOURAKIS M.; BUSHELL W.; IYER V.; MUJICA AO.; THOMAS M.; HARROW J.; COX T.; and co-authors. 2011. A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function. Nature, 474(7351):337–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

GRIMBLE MJ. 2006. Robust Industrial Control Systems. Chichester, England, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

SHETTY K.; WU GY. (eds.) 2010. Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

ZUCKERMAN-LEVIN N.; LATZER Y.; DUNNE PE.; HOCHBERG Z. 2016. Skeletal Involvement in Eating Disorders. In: LATZER Y and STEIN D (eds.) Bio-Psycho-Social Contributions to Understanding Eating Disorders. Cham, 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 Strategic Design Research Journal.

Blog post

ANDREW E. 2014. New Species Suggests Mammals Appeared Much Earlier Than Previously Believed. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-squirrel-species-suggest-mammals-appeared-much-earlier-previously/. Accessed on: 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

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE. 2013. Strategic Sourcing: Improved and Expanded Use Could Provide Procurement Savings for Federal Information Technology. GAO-13-408T. Washington, DC, 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

PETERS B. 2010. From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism. Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY, 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

KANTER J. 2017. As E.U.’s Roster Swells, So Does Linguistic Burden. New York Times. January 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rice, 2006; Leonhardt and Tyc, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Leonhardt and Tyc, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Skarnes et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Design Research Journal
ISSN (print)	1984-2988
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