How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS). 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]

Harra LK. 2014. Astronomy. Looking closer at the Sun. Science 346(6207):305–306.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Niehoff DL, Rhodes R. 2000. Ideas about the development of violent behavior. Science 290(5494):1093c–5c.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li Y-L, Kinloch IA, Windle AH. 2004. Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibers from chemical vapor deposition synthesis. Science 304(5668):276–278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Blanchon P, Eisenhauer A, Fietzke J, Liebetrau V. 2009. Rapid sea-level rise and reef back-stepping at the close of the last interglacial highstand. Nature 458(7240):881–884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wempen F. 2010. Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Bible. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

[1]

Lundstrom MS. 2006. Nanoscale Transistors: Device Physics, Modeling and Simulation. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Salomon G. 2014. A Two-Track Doctorate in Education. In: Ibarrola M de, Anderson LW (eds) The Nurturing of New Educational Researchers: Dialogues and Debates. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 65–72.

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 Journal of Computer Information Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. 2015. Four Things That You Should Know About The EPA Clean Power Plan. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-things-you-should-know-about-epa-clean-power-plan/, [30/10/2018].

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. 2015. Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options. 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

[1]

Maranhao B. 2015. Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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]

Dynarski S. 2016. Finding a Fairer Way to Decide Who’s Gifted. New York Times :BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0887-4417
ISSN (online)	2380-2057
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Education