How to format your references using the Journal of Computing and information Science in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computing and information Science in Engineering. 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]

Jenkins, A., 2004, “Graduate Journal: A Tough Challenge,” Nature, 427(6972), p. 378.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tseng, C.-K., and Cheng, S.-C., 2008, “Both Catalytic Steps of Nuclear Pre-MRNA Splicing Are Reversible,” Science, 320(5884), pp. 1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fiorin, G., Carnevale, V., and DeGrado, W. F., 2010, “Structural Biology. The Flu’s Proton Escort,” Science, 330(6003), pp. 456–458.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Stenseth, N. C., Mysterud, A., Ottersen, G., Hurrell, J. W., Chan, K.-S., and Lima, M., 2002, “Ecological Effects of Climate Fluctuations,” Science, 297(5585), pp. 1292–1296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bonald, T., and Feuillet, M., 2011, Network Performance Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Härdle, W. K., 2012, Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Castillo, K., and Marcellán, F., 2015, “On Some Recent Results on Asymptotic Behavior of Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle and Inserting Point Masses,” Computation, Cryptography, and Network Security, N.J. Daras, and M.T. Rassias, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–101.

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 Computing and information Science in Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2015, “Bill Nye Explains How The Universe Speaks To Us In A Hilarious New Video,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/bill-nye-explains-secrets-universe-amy-schumer/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 1973, Analysis of Cost Estimates for the Space Shuttle and Two Alternate Programs, B-173677, 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]

Poudel, S. R., 2017, “Models and Algorithms to Solve a Reliable and Congested Biomass Supply Chain Network Designing Problem under Uncertainty,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University.

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]

Murphy, M. J. O., 2015, “Friday File,” New York Times, p. C25.

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 Computing and information Science in Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1530-9827
ISSN (online)	1944-7078
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Software Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering