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

OETTL A. 2012. Sociology: Honour the helpful. Nature, 489(7417):496–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

CYWES C.; WESSELS MR. 2001. Group A Streptococcus tissue invasion by CD44-mediated cell signalling. Nature, 414(6864):648–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

VACCARI NE.; EDGECOMBE GD.; ESCUDERO C. 2004. Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods. Nature, 430(6999):554–557.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

CHENG Y.; ZHANG H.; VARANASI CV.; LIU J. 2013. Highly efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on winged carbon nanotubes. Scientific reports, 33195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

HALLORAN M.; THIES C. 2012. The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

EROVIC BM. 2015. Manual of Head and Neck Reconstruction Using Regional and Free Flaps. Vienna, Springer. XIX, 256 p. 243 illus., 240 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

DEDYSH SN.; KULICHEVSKAYA IS. 2013. Acidophilic Planctomycetes: Expanding the Horizons of New Planctomycete Diversity. In: FUERST JA (ed.) Planctomycetes: Cell Structure, Origins and Biology. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press.

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. 2015. Watch Elon Musk’s Moving ‘Solid Metal Snake’ Charge A Tesla Car. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-elon-musks-moving-solid-metal-snake-charge-tesla-car/. 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. 1982. Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. FPCD-83-23. 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

BINNEY I. 2014. Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Work Engagement and Turnover Intentions in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ, Northcentral 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

MUELLER B. 2015. Bible Study Group Devolved Into a Lethal Sect. New York Times. October 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Oettl, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Oettl, 2012; Cywes and Wessels, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cywes and Wessels, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

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