How to format your references using the Computer Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Science Review. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

A. Sanov, Chemistry. Coherence and symmetry breaking at the molecular level, Science 315 (2007) 610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.A. Nadeau, F.D. Sack, Control of stomatal distribution on the Arabidopsis leaf surface, Science 296 (2002) 1697–1700.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Yi, N. Hong, Y. Hong, Generation of medaka fish haploid embryonic stem cells, Science 326 (2009) 430–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Xiao, F. Patolsky, E. Katz, J.F. Hainfeld, I. Willner, “Plugging into Enzymes”: nanowiring of redox enzymes by a gold nanoparticle, Science 299 (2003) 1877–1881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Shahidi, Balanced Asset Allocation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M.W. Jornitz, ed., Sterile Filtration, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N.B. Cocchiarella, Actualism Versus Possibilism in Formal Ontology, in: R. Poli, J. Seibt (Eds.), Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 105–117.

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 Computer Science Review.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Plasma Fire Tornado Appears On The Sun, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/plasma-fire-tornado-appears-sun/ (accessed October 30, 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, Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Many Federal Programs Fund Transportation Services, but Obstacles to Coordination Persist, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.E. Mazon, The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

B. Sisario, Concord Bicycle Music Buying Imagem Music, New York Times (2017) B6.

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	Computer Science Review
Abbreviation	Comput. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1574-0137
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science