How to format your references using the Computer Science Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Science Education. 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

Joyce, G. F. (2007). Structural biology. A glimpse of biology’s first enzyme. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1507–1508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hugall, A. F., & Stuart-Fox, D. (2012). Accelerated speciation in colour-polymorphic birds. Nature, 485(7400), 631–634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spiliotis, E. T., Kinoshita, M., & Nelson, W. J. (2005). A mitotic septin scaffold required for Mammalian chromosome congression and segregation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1781–1785.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Burt, R. K., Abinun, M., Farge-Bancel, D., Fassas, A., Hiepe, F., Havrdová, E., Ikehara, S., Loh, Y., Marmont du Haut Champ, A., Voltarelli, J. C., Snowden, J., & Slavin, S. (2010). Risks of immune system treatments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 825–826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr, K. S. (2010). Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Rizzi, A. (2011). Logistica e tecnologia RFID: Creare valore nella filiera alimentare e nel largo consumo (R. Montanari, M. Bertolini, E. Bottani, & A. Volpi, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin, A., & Quarles, L. D. (2012). Evidence for FGF23 Involvement in a Bone-Kidney Axis Regulating Bone Mineralization and Systemic Phosphate and Vitamin D Homeostasis. In M. Kuro-o (Ed.), Endocrine FGFs and Klothos (pp. 65–83). Springer US.

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 Science Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 10). Binge Drinking Affects Your Immune System Immediately. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/binge-drinking-effects-your-immune-system-immediately/

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. (1984). First-Year Implementation of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act in the Department of Education (HRD-84-49). 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

Ramotar-John, B. P. (2014). Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Phillips, K. M. (2009, August 15). In Mexico, Outgunned and Underpaid. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joyce, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hugall & Stuart-Fox, 2012; Joyce, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hugall & Stuart-Fox, 2012)
Three authors: (Spiliotis et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Burt et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Science Education
Abbreviation	Comput. Sci. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0899-3408
ISSN (online)	1744-5175
Scope	General Computer Science Education