How to format your references using the Computer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

T. Gerya, “Dynamical instability produces transform faults at mid-ocean ridges,” Science, vol. 329, no. 5995, pp. 1047–1050, Aug. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X. Wang and J. R. Key, “Recent trends in Arctic surface, cloud, and radiation properties from space,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5613, pp. 1725–1728, Mar. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. X. Luo, A. W. Crompton, and A. L. Sun, “A new mammaliaform from the early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5521, pp. 1535–1540, May 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Squartini, F. Picciolo, F. Ruzzenenti, and D. Garlaschelli, “Reciprocity of weighted networks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2729, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. V. Silva Elipe, LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

O. Castillo, P. Melin, W. Pedrycz, and J. Kacprzyk, Eds., Recent Advances on Hybrid Approaches for Designing Intelligent Systems, vol. 547. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 547. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. M. Yip, “Challenges to Public Housing in Post-colonial Hong Kong,” in The Future of Public Housing: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West, J. Chen, M. Stephens, and Y. Man, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 65–83.

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 Computer.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Ayahuasca, A Cautionary Tale For Tourists Eager To Try This Shamanic Brew,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ayahuasca-a-cautionary-tale-for-tourists-eager-to-try-this-shamanic-brew/

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, “Intellectual Property: Survey of U.S. Patent Examiners (GAO-16-478SP, June 2016), an E-supplement to GAO-16-479 and GAO-16-490,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-478SP, Jun. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. B. Lancelin, “A Phenomenological Case Study of Teacher Experiences with and Understanding of Instruction Aligned to the CCSS, and their Role in Advancing Equal Educational Opportunities for Students,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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]

L. Greenhouse, “3 Defining Opinions,” New York Times, p. WK4, Jul. 13, 2008.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer
Abbreviation	Computer (Long Beach Calif.)
ISSN (print)	0018-9162
Scope	General Computer Science