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]

Günter Blobel. 2008. Obituary: George Emil Palade (1912-2008). Nature 456, 7218 (November 2008), 52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bertrand Kleizen and Ineke Braakman. 2013. Cell biology. A sweet send-off. Science 340, 6135 (May 2013), 930–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Frederik Tilmann, James Ni, and INDEPTH III Seismic Team. 2003. Seismic imaging of the downwelling Indian lithosphere beneath central Tibet. Science 300, 5624 (May 2003), 1424–1427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. R. Hall, I. N. McCave, N. J. Shackleton, G. P. Weedon, and S. E. Harris. 2001. Intensified deep Pacific inflow and ventilation in Pleistocene glacial times. Nature 412, 6849 (August 2001), 809–812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Frederick G. Moritz. 2013. Electromechanical Motion Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

John Field and Vasco T. Vasconcelos (Eds.). 2009. Coordination Models and Languages: 11th International Conference, COORDINATION 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, June 9-12, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Niklas Buescher, Andreas Holzer, Alina Weber, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2016. Compiling Low Depth Circuits for Practical Secure Computation. In Computer Security – ESORICS 2016: 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Heraklion, Greece, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Ioannis Askoxylakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Sokratis Katsikas and Catherine Meadows (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 80–98.

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]

Kristy Hamilton. 2016. How Technology Could Help Predict Terrorist Attacks. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-technology-could-help-predict-terrorist-attacks/

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. 1993. School Construction: Sallie Mae Financing Activities. 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]

Thomas Thompson. 2010. Assessing the determinants of information technology adoption in Jamaica’s public sector using the technology acceptance model. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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]

John Hodgman. 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM22.

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, 7, 8].

About the journal

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