ABSTRACT
Preparing any type of writing includes spending some time taking care of its final presentation before it reaches the reader. One of the hurdles of writing academically about games is figuring out how to include citations. Since game studies are an interdisciplinary field, there is a wide variety of citation formats that we may end up using. The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), the main international organization dealing with game studies, has its own formatting style based on the Chicago Manual of Style. Writing a game studies paper requires being ready to learn all the formatting tricks of your text editor of choice. The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) format does not have any citation guidelines from anything media-related other than video recordings. The American Psychology Association (APA) style does have a way to cite digital programs, which may be one of the reasons why it is frequently used in game studies.
