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]

J. Anglin, Why trapped atoms are attractive, Nature 406 (2000) 29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.P. Otto, S.L. Nuismer, Species interactions and the evolution of sex, Science 304 (2004) 1018–1020.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Browne, A. Tunnacliffe, A. Burnell, Anhydrobiosis: plant desiccation gene found in a nematode, Nature 416 (2002) 38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Dean, R. Marchetti, K. Kirk, K.R. Matthews, A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal, Nature 459 (2009) 213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Cheng, A. Lopez-Beltran, D.G. Bostwick, Bladder Pathology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R. Maringanti, M. Tiwari, A. Arora, eds., Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks: WCSN 2013, Springer India, New Delhi, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Timmis, P. Andrews, N. Owens, E. Clark, Immune Systems and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Adventure, in: C.S. Calude, J.F. Costa, R. Freund, M. Oswald, G. Rozenberg (Eds.), Unconventional Computing: 7th International Conference, UC 2008 Vienna, Austria, August 25-28, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 8–18.

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]

E. Andrew, Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Approach Closer Than The Moon This Weekend, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/asteroid-discovered-days-ago-will-approach-closer-moon-weekend/ (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, International Education Assistance: USAID Has Implemented Primary Grade Reading Programs but Has Not Yet Measured Progress toward Its Strategic Goal, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.J. Anisko, Selling Mexico’s vistas: A visual discourse analysis of promotional materials of Loreto Bay, Mexico, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

B. Kenigsberg, Film Series, New York Times (2017) C20.

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