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

Gimalac, A. (2004). Recruiters and industry. Building biostatistics. Nature, 430(6996), 276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reznick, D. N., & Ricklefs, R. E. (2009). Darwin’s bridge between microevolution and macroevolution. Nature, 457(7231), 837–842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ooi, T. L., Wu, B., & He, Z. J. (2001). Distance determined by the angular declination below the horizon. Nature, 414(6860), 197–200.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brunet, M., Guy, F., Pilbeam, D., Lieberman, D. E., Likius, A., Mackaye, H. T., et al. (2005). New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. Nature, 434(7034), 752–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Primak, S. L., & Kontorovich, V. (2011). Wireless Multi-Antenna Channels. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lytras, M. D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E., Avison, D., Naeve, A., & Horner, D. G. (Eds.). (2009). Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 49). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y., & Su, Y. (2014). Silicon-Based Nanoprobes for Bioimaging Applications. In Y. Su (Ed.), Silicon Nano-biotechnology (pp. 61–73). 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, D. (2015, August 29). Why Are There More Men Than Women? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1995). Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants (No. T-HEHS-95-199). 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

Boyle, C. N. (2013). Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, May 31). Supreme Court to Weigh Award in a Smoker’s Death. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gimalac 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gimalac 2004; Reznick and Ricklefs 2009).

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

Two authors: (Reznick and Ricklefs 2009)
Three or more authors: (Brunet et al. 2005)

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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