How to format your references using the Entertainment Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Entertainment Computing. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
H. Kitano, Systems biology: a brief overview, Science. 295 (2002) 1662–1664.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
D.H. Ebert, M.E. Greenberg, Activity-dependent neuronal signalling and autism spectrum disorder, Nature. 493 (2013) 327–337.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
S.A.M. Perryman, S.J. Clark, J.S. West, Splash dispersal of Phyllosticta citricarpa conidia from infected citrus fruit, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6568.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
U.S. Eggert, N. Ruiz, B.V. Falcone, A.A. Branstrom, R.C. Goldman, T.J. Silhavy, D. Kahne, Genetic basis for activity differences between vancomycin and glycolipid derivatives of vancomycin, Science. 294 (2001) 361–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
R.L. Stein, Kinetics of Enzyme Action, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.
An edited book
[1]
C. Canuto, Analisi matematica I: Teoria ed esercizi con complementi in rete, 2a edizione, Springer, Milano, 2005.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Q.H. Vu, M. Lupu, B.C. Ooi, Load Balancing and Replication, in: M. Lupu, B.C. Ooi (Eds.), Peer-to-Peer Computing: Principles and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 127–156.

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 Entertainment Computing.

Blog post
[1]
K. Hamilton, Why You Should Worry About The Privatization Of Genetic Data, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-worry-about-the-privatization-of-genetic-data/ (accessed 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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Child Labor: Information on Federal Enforcement Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
C. Fresolone, The pedagogical use of Gerald Near’s “Chantworks,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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
[1]
J. Williams, Faye Redux, New York Times. (2017) BR4.

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 titleEntertainment Computing
AbbreviationEntertain. Comput.
ISSN (print)1875-9521
ScopeHuman-Computer Interaction
Software

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