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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Robert M. Krug. 2014. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature 516, 7531 (December 2014), 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raymond B. Huey and William J. Moody. 2002. Neuroscience and evolution. Snake sodium channels resist TTX arrest. Science 297, 5585 (August 2002), 1289–1290.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. J. Mason, J. Cooper, and C. Clarebrough. 2001. Frustrations of fur-farmed mink. Nature 410, 6824 (March 2001), 35–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ryo Okamoto, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Holger F. Hofmann, Tomohisa Nagata, Keiji Sasaki, and Shigeki Takeuchi. 2009. An entanglement filter. Science 323, 5913 (January 2009), 483–485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacRoberts. 2014. MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Cheryl A. Nickerson, Neal R. Pellis, and C. Mark Ott (Eds.). 2016. Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial Cells: Novel Insights into Disease Mechanisms (1st ed. 2016 ed.). Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. S. Dragomir. 2010. The Perturbed Median Principle for Integral Inequalities with Applications. In Nonlinear Analysis and Variational Problems: In Honor of George Isac, Panos M. Pardalos, Themistocles M. Rassias and Akhtar A. Khan (eds.). Springer, New York, NY, 53–63.

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]

Robin Andrews. 2017. India Successfully Deploys 104 Satellites In World Record-Breaking Rocket Launch. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/india-deploys-104-satellites-world-recordbreaking-rocket-launch/

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. 1978. Guidelines for Survey of the Pricing of Negotiated Noncompetitive DOD Prime Contracts With McDonnell Douglas and Raytheon and NASA Prime Contracts With General Electric. 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]

Kristen A. Bradley. 2014. A Tennessee Irish Picnic: Foodways and Complex Community Dynamics. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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]

Linda Greenhouse. 2006. Justices Curb Postal Service’s Immunity From Lawsuits. New York Times, A21.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

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