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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

W. L. Ellsworth, “Earthquake anniversary. Halfway through Reid’s cycle and counting,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5771, pp. 203–204, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. S. Aaronson and C. M. Horvath, “A road map for those who don’t know JAK-STAT,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5573, pp. 1653–1655, May 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. S. Ginsburg, M. Angrist, and R. Cook-Deegan, “Public health. Genomics and medicine at a crossroads in Chernobyl,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5796, pp. 62–63, Oct. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. A. Pearthree, J. E. Spencer, J. E. Faulds, and P. K. House, “Comment on ‘Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems,’” Science, vol. 321, no. 5896, p. 1634, Sep. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Guzinski, H. Abu-Rub, and P. Strankowski, Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D. Edwards, G. Høyer-Hansen, F. Blasi, and B. F. Sloane, Eds., The Cancer Degradome: Proteases and Cancer Biology. New York, NY: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Chatterjee and P. Sarkar, “Boneh-Franklin IBE and its Variants,” in Identity-Based Encryption, P. Sarkar, Ed., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011, pp. 49–62.

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]

K. Hamilton, “Superbugs Evolve In Waste Water, And Could End Up In Our Food,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/superbugs-evolve-in-waste-water-and-could-end-up-in-our-food/

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, “Response to the Department of Education’s Request to Reconsider the High-Risk Designation of Federal Student Aid Programs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-885R, Jun. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Cao, “A Field-Scale Simulation of the Reversible Nanoparticle Adsorption for Enhancing Oil Recovery Using Hydrophilic Nanofluids,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2015.

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]

E. Weil, “A Hole in the Heart,” New York Times, p. MM42, Jul. 23, 2015.

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