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

Powell, K. (2002). Call for clinical-trial reform leaves critics unmoved. Nature, 419(6907), 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wyatt, M. B., & McSween, H. Y., Jr. (2002). Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars. Nature, 417(6886), 263–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weir, A. A. S., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2002). Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 981.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sarin, K. Y., Cheung, P., Gilison, D., Lee, E., Tennen, R. I., Wang, E., et al. (2005). Conditional telomerase induction causes proliferation of hair follicle stem cells. Nature, 436(7053), 1048–1052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford, S., & Saunders, M. (2012). Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ritsner, M. S. (Ed.). (2009). The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes: Neuropsychological Endophenotypes and Biomarkers. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Spindler, P., & Johannes, F. M. (2007). Kraftwerk: A Fast and Robust Quadratic Placer Using an Exact Linear Net Model. In G.-J. Nam & J. Cong (Eds.), Modern Circuit Placement: Best Practices and Results (pp. 59–93). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. (2015, February 10). Quantum Equations Suggest Big Bang Never Happened. 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. (1993). Space Station: Program Instability and Cost Growth Continue Pending Redesign (No. NSIAD-93-187). 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

Gibson, J. J. (2017). An Assessment of Factors Relating to High School Students’ Science Self-Efficacy (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Gurley, G. (2016, June 4). On the Town With a Fleet Week Newbie. New York Times, p. ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2002; Wyatt and McSween 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wyatt and McSween 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sarin et al. 2005)

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