How to format your references using the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 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

Maxmen, A. (2013). Crop pests: Under attack. Nature, 501(7468), S15-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, G., & David Lou, X. W. (2013). Controlled growth of NiCo₂O₄ nanorods and ultrathin nanosheets on carbon nanofibers for high-performance supercapacitors. Scientific reports, 3, 1470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royle, N. J., Hartley, I. R., & Parker, G. A. (2002). Sexual conflict reduces offspring fitness in zebra finches. Nature, 416(6882), 733–736.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

DeLuca, T. H., Zackrisson, O., Nilsson, M.-C., & Sellstedt, A. (2002). Quantifying nitrogen-fixation in feather moss carpets of boreal forests. Nature, 419(6910), 917–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voigtman, E. (2017). Limits of Detection in Chemical Analysis. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jardri, R., Cachia, A., Thomas, P., & Pins, D. (Eds.). (2013). The Neuroscience of Hallucinations. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Spitzer, P., Wunderli, S., Maksymiuk, K., Michalska, A., Kisiel, A., Galus, Z., & Tauber, G. (2013). Reference Electrodes for Aqueous Solutions. In G. Inzelt, A. Lewenstam, & F. Scholz (Eds.), Handbook of Reference Electrodes (pp. 77–143). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, March 10). How To Protect Your Private Data When You Travel To The United States. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-to-protect-your-private-data-when-you-travel-to-the-united-states/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1998). FCC: Maritime Communications (No. OGC-98-66). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buckley, M. K. (2012). A study of at-risk students’ perceptions of an online academic credit recovery program in an urban North Texas independent school district (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kirkpatrick, D. D., Hakim, D., & Glanz, J. (2017, June 24). ‘An Accident Waiting to Happen’: Blame in a Deadly London Fire. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Maxmen 2013; Zhang and David Lou 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zhang and David Lou 2013)
Three or more authors: (DeLuca et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Abbreviation	Int. J. Comput. Support. Collab. Learn.
ISSN (print)	1556-1607
ISSN (online)	1556-1615
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Education

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