How to format your references using the Computers in Entertainment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers in Entertainment (CIE). 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

[1]

Frances M. Ashcroft. 2006. From molecule to malady. Nature 440, 7083 (March 2006), 440–447.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brooks Hanson and David Voss. 2007. Sunrise. Introduction. Hinode. Science 318, 5856 (December 2007), 1571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Andre S. Ellis, Thomas M. Johnson, and Thomas D. Bullen. 2002. Chromium isotopes and the fate of hexavalent chromium in the environment. Science 295, 5562 (March 2002), 2060–2062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhicheng Pan, Zexian Liu, Han Cheng, Yongbo Wang, Tianshun Gao, Shahid Ullah, Jian Ren, and Yu Xue. 2014. Systematic analysis of the in situ crosstalk of tyrosine modifications reveals no additional natural selection on multiply modified residues. Sci. Rep. 4, (December 2014), 7331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Richard F. Dods. 2013. Understanding Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Zsolt Peter Nagy, Alex C. Varghese, and Ashok Agarwal (Eds.). 2012. Practical Manual of In Vitro Fertilization: Advanced Methods and Novel Devices. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Janusz Kacprzyk and Sławomir Zadrożny. 2015. Linguistic Summaries of Time Series: A Powerful and Prospective Tool for Discovering Knowledge on Time Varying Processes and Systems. In Towards the Future of Fuzzy Logic, Rudolf Seising, Enric Trillas and Janusz Kacprzyk (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 65–77.

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 Computers in Entertainment.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2015. This Video Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/comparing-sizes-sun-earth-and-stars/

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. 2004. Commuter Rail: Information and Guidance Could Help Facilitate Commuter and Freight Rail Access Negotiations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hao Yu. 2009. Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae). Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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]

N. Gregory Mankiw. 2016. A Better Way to Grade Presidents. New York Times, BU5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 5, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers in Entertainment
Abbreviation	Comput. Entertain.
ISSN (online)	1544-3574
Scope	Computer Science Applications