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]

Verma, I. M., 2013, “Medicine. Gene Therapy That Works,” Science, 341(6148), pp. 853–855.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Frank, J., and Agrawal, R. K., 2000, “A Ratchet-like Inter-Subunit Reorganization of the Ribosome during Translocation,” Nature, 406(6793), pp. 318–322.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Barnes, W. L., Dereux, A., and Ebbesen, T. W., 2003, “Surface Plasmon Subwavelength Optics,” Nature, 424(6950), pp. 824–830.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Jousson, O., Pawlowski, J., Zaninetti, L., Zechman, F. W., Dini, F., Di Guiseppe, G., Woodfield, R., Millar, A., and Meinesz, A., 2000, “Invasive Alga Reaches California,” Nature, 408(6809), pp. 157–158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Grinyer, A., 2012, Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Nordio, M., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., and Terekhov, A., eds., 2010, Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: 4th International Conference, SEAFOOD 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17-18, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bender, S., 2016, “On Worlds, Laws and Tiles: Leibniz and the Problem of Compossibility,” Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds, G. Brown, and Y. Chiek, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–90.

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., 2014, “Meet The Amoeba That Eats Your Brain,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/meet-amoeba-eats-your-brain/. [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, 1998, National Airspace System: Status of Wide Area Augmentation System Project, RCED-98-79, 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]

Davies, G. L., 2015, “An Analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s ‘Third Wind’: Arranging Techniques and Performance Considerations,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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]

Walsh, M. W., 2016, “A Harbinger of U.S. Woes,” New York Times, p. B1.

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

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