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

Feldstein, S. B. (2011). Atmospheric science. Subtropical rainfall and the Antarctic ozone hole. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 925–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verdun, R. E., & Karlseder, J. (2007). Replication and protection of telomeres. Nature, 447(7147), 924–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Z.-Y., Sun, K.-D., & Wang, S.-Q. (2013). Enhanced community structure detection in complex networks with partial background information. Scientific Reports, 3, 3241.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jaeger, W. L., Keszthelyi, L. P., McEwen, A. S., Dundas, C. M., & Russell, P. S. (2007). Athabasca Valles, Mars: a lava-draped channel system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1709–1711.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamowicz, Z., & Zbierski, P. (1997). Logic of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bihanic, D. (Ed.). (2015). Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jie, Y. (2016). Development on Copper Smelters in China Today. In J. W. Fergus, B. Mishra, D. Anderson, E. A. Sarver, & N. R. Neelameggham (Eds.), Engineering Solutions for Sustainability: Materials and Resources II (pp. 43–54). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2014, June 27). New Species Of Mammal Discovered in Africa. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-mammal-discovered-africa/

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. (1989). Tank Recovery Vehicle: Status of Program Acquisition and Full-Scale Engineering Development (NSIAD-89-156). 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

Parkinson, M. M. (2011). Adult readers’ calibration of word learning [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Halbfinger, D. M., & Hubbard, B. (2017, September 7). Airstrikes on Syrian Sites Renew Focus on Chemical Arms. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldstein, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Feldstein, 2011; Verdun & Karlseder, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Verdun & Karlseder, 2007)
Three authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Jaeger et al., 2007)

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