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

Dyson, P. J. (2009). Journal club. A chemist highlights promising organometallic drugs. Nature, 458(7237), 389.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conner, S. D., & Schmid, S. L. (2003). Regulated portals of entry into the cell. Nature, 422(6927), 37–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbone, F., Kwon, O.-H., & Zewail, A. H. (2009). Dynamics of chemical bonding mapped by energy-resolved 4D electron microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5937), 181–184.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, W., Yin, L., Gonzalez-Malerva, L., Wang, S., Yu, X., Eaton, S., Zhang, S., Chen, H.-Y., LaBaer, J., & Tao, N. (2014). In situ drug-receptor binding kinetics in single cells: a quantitative label-free study of anti-tumor drug resistance. Scientific Reports, 4, 6609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Melville, A. (2010). Political Atlas of the Modern World. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Cimino, G., & Gavagnin, M. (Eds.). (2006). Molluscs: From Chemo-ecological Study to Biotechnological Application (Vol. 43). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jyoti, A., Tomar, R. S., & Shanker, R. (2016). Nanosensors for the Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria. In S. Ranjan, N. Dasgupta, & E. Lichtfouse (Eds.), Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1 (pp. 129–150). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, November 22). Was Japan’s 6.9M Earthquake Linked To The 2011 Megathrust Disaster? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/japan-earthquake-linked-2011-megathrust-disaster/

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. (1992). Organizational Culture: Techniques Companies Use to Perpetuate or Change Beliefs and Values (NSIAD-92-105). 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

Rosie, S. A. (2012). Examining stakeholder perceptions of educational success in the Malagasy public education system [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, August 28). Taylor Swift’s Single Breaks Spotify Record. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dyson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Conner & Schmid, 2003; Dyson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Conner & Schmid, 2003)
Three authors: (Carbone et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

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