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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computing in Higher 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

Krimsky, S. (2011). Beware of gifts that come at too great a cost. Nature, 474(7350), 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alcorn, J. F., & Kolls, J. K. (2015). Physiology. Killer fat. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6217), 26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vannucchi, P., Remitti, F., & Bettelli, G. (2008). Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary. Nature, 451(7179), 699–703.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bu, L., Jiang, X., Martin-Puig, S., Caron, L., Zhu, S., Shao, Y., et al. (2009). Human ISL1 heart progenitors generate diverse multipotent cardiovascular cell lineages. Nature, 460(7251), 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ytterdal, T., Cheng, Y., & Fjeldly, T. A. (2003). Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mahmood, Z., & Hill, R. (Eds.). (2011). Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kindler, S., & Kreienkamp, H.-J. (2012). The Role of the Postsynaptic Density in the Pathology of the Fragile X Syndrome. In R. B. Denman (Ed.), Modeling Fragile X Syndrome (pp. 61–80). 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 Computing in Higher Education.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 11). Study Suggests That Humans Are Still Evolving. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-suggests-that-humans-are-still-evolving/. 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. (1989). Government Civilian Aircraft: Central Management Reforms Are Encouraging but Require Extensive Oversight (No. GGD-89-86). 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

McDuffie, C. A. (2017). Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, May 4). State Bonds In Jeopardy As Tobacco Cash Fades. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krimsky 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Alcorn and Kolls 2015; Krimsky 2011).

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

Two authors: (Alcorn and Kolls 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bu et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Abbreviation	J. Comput. High. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1042-1726
ISSN (online)	1867-1233
Scope	Education