How to format your references using the Journal of Computers in Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computers in Education. 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

Jensen, M. H. (2002). Obituary: Per Bak (1947-2002). Nature, 420(6913), 284.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinchliffe, P., & Sazanov, L. A. (2005). Organization of iron-sulfur clusters in respiratory complex I. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 771–774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerke, J., Lorenz, K., & Cohen, B. (2009). Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 498–501.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pham, K. N., Puertas, A. M., Bergenholtz, J., Egelhaaf, S. U., Moussaïd, A., Pusey, P. N., et al. (2002). Multiple glassy states in a simple model system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 104–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell, C. A., & Collins, M. (2010). The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chli, M., & Wilde, P. de (Eds.). (2009). Convergence and Knowledge Processing in Multi-Agent Systems. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rouche, N. (2011). Théorie de la stabilité dans les équations difféerentielles ordinaires. In L. Salvadori (Ed.), Stability Problems (pp. 112–194). 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 Journal of Computers in Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 15). Beyond Pluto: New Horizons’ Mission Is Not Over Yet. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/beyond-pluto-new-horizons-mission-not-over-yet/. 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. (1978). Procedures for Evaluating Research and Development Contracts in the Department of Transportation (No. PSAD-78-110). 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

Pan, C.-M. (2012). Synthesis and Evaluation of Macrocycles as Potential Antitumor Agents (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 12). Rookie Succeeds With Two Motivations: Playoff Race and His Student Loans. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jensen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hinchliffe and Sazanov 2005; Jensen 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hinchliffe and Sazanov 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pham et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computers in Education
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2197-9987
ISSN (online)	2197-9995
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