How to format your references using the The Internet and Higher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Internet and 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Casey, B. J. (2002). Neuroscience. Windows into the human brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1408–1409.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cox, A. G., & Goessling, W. (2014). Regenerative biology: Take the brakes off for liver repair. Nature, 506(7488), 299–300.
A journal article with 3 authors
Deng, B., Zhang, R. Q., & Shi, X. Q. (2014). New insight into the spin-conserving excitation of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Scientific Reports, 4, 5144.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Bolotin, K. I., Ghahari, F., Shulman, M. D., Stormer, H. L., & Kim, P. (2009). Observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene. Nature, 462(7270), 196–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Soustelle, M. (2016). Phase Transformations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Blesa, M. J., Blum, C., & Voß, S. (Eds.). (2014). Hybrid Metaheuristics: 9th International Workshop, HM 2014, Hamburg, Germany, June 11-13, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8457). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Rowlett, R. S. (2014). Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of β-Carbonic Anhydrases. In S. C. Frost & R. McKenna (Eds.), Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications (pp. 53–76). Springer Netherlands.

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 The Internet and Higher Education.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, June 5). Fake Orca Meant To Scare Sea Lions Fails Miserably. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1984). [Request for Clarification and Expansion of GAO Views on the Chadha Decision] (B-196854.3). 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
Wurster, K. W. (2010). Management matter? Effects of charcoal production management on woodland regeneration in Senegal [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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
Qiu, L. (2017, June 9). On Infrastructure, Claims That Don’t Quite Get Off the Ground. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Casey, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Casey, 2002; Cox & Goessling, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Cox & Goessling, 2014)
  • Three authors: (Deng et al., 2014)
  • 6 or more authors: (Bolotin et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal titleThe Internet and Higher Education
AbbreviationInternet High. Educ.
ISSN (print)1096-7516
ScopeComputer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Education

Other styles