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]

Kevin J. Hemker. 2004. Materials science. Understanding how nanocrystalline metals deform. Science 304, 5668 (April 2004), 221–223.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brad A. Seibel and Heidi M. Dierssen. 2009. Ocean science. Animal function at the heart (and gut) of oceanography. Science 323, 5912 (January 2009), 343–344.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Katherine A. McCulloh, John S. Sperry, and Frederick R. Adler. 2003. Water transport in plants obeys Murray’s law. Nature 421, 6926 (February 2003), 939–942.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Vishnu Mohanan, Toru Nakata, A. Nicole Desch, Chloé Lévesque, Angela Boroughs, Gaelen Guzman, Zhifang Cao, Elizabeth Creasey, Junmei Yao, Gabrielle Boucher, Guy Charron, Atul K. Bhan, Monica Schenone, Steven A. Carr, Hans-Christian Reinecker, Mark J. Daly, John D. Rioux, Kara G. Lassen, and Ramnik J. Xavier. 2018. C1orf106 is a colitis risk gene that regulates stability of epithelial adherens junctions. Science 359, 6380 (March 2018), 1161–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bhupesh K. Lad, Divya Shrivastava, and Makarand S. Kulkarni. 2016. Machine Tool Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Hua Feng, Ying Mao, and John H. Zhang (Eds.). 2011. Early Brain Injury or Cerebral Vasospasm: Volume 1: Pathophysiology. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Michael K. Glynos and Katerina S. Malagari. 2014. Interventional Radiology in Oncology. In Imaging in Clinical Oncology, Athanasios D. Gouliamos, John Andreou and Paris Kosmidis (eds.). Springer, Milano, 43–63.

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. 2016. Good Tests Make Children Fail – Here’s Why. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/good-tests-make-children-fail-here-s-why/

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. 2006. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Local Implementation and State Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services. 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]

John L. Romanek. 2009. The relative influence of sensation seeking and normal narcissism on academic cheating in emerging adults. 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]

Michael Tackett. 2017. Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims Could Find Political Clout in Florida. New York Times, A13.

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, 6–8].

About the journal

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