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

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

E.F. Keller, A clash of two cultures, Nature 445 (2007) 603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.L. Heilbron, W.F. Bynum, Millennial highlights...from Gerbert d’Aurillac to Watson and Crick, Nature 403 (2000) 13–16.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Villar, A.D. Graham, H. Bayley, A tissue-like printed material, Science 340 (2013) 48–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.C. Vitari, K.G. Leong, K. Newton, C. Yee, K. O’Rourke, J. Liu, L. Phu, R. Vij, R. Ferrando, S.S. Couto, S. Mohan, A. Pandita, J.-A. Hongo, D. Arnott, I.E. Wertz, W.-Q. Gao, D.M. French, V.M. Dixit, COP1 is a tumour suppressor that causes degradation of ETS transcription factors, Nature 474 (2011) 403–406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.L.-C. Delgado, M. Araki, Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

H. Singh, Parallel-Fed Planar Dipole Antenna Arrays for Low-Observable Platforms, 1st ed. 2016, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Webster, Grenz Ray and Ultrasoft X-Ray Therapy, in: R.G. Panizzon, M.H. Seegenschmiedt (Eds.), Radiation Treatment and Radiation Reactions in Dermatology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 73–87.

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 Review.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Pouring Sulfuric Acid Onto Toilet Roll Is Oddly Satisfying, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/pouring-sulfuric-acid-onto-toilet-roll-is-oddly-satisfying/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Maritime Administration: Proceeds from the Sale of Obsolete Vessels Were Accounted for, Allocated, and Disbursed Consistent with Applicable Law, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.A. Hasbini, The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

J. Eligon, Perseverance Pays for Ward, a New Champion and, Maybe, the Sport’s Next Big Star, New York Times (2016) D3.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Science Review
Abbreviation	Comput. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1574-0137
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science