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

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

Stierle, A. (2008). Materials science. Tracking corrosion cracking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5887), 349–350.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, C. L., & Spence, A. M. (2011). Epigenetic licensing of germline gene expression by maternal RNA in C. elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1311–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pluth, M. D., Bergman, R. G., & Raymond, K. N. (2007). Acid catalysis in basic solution: a supramolecular host promotes orthoformate hydrolysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 85–88.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Waters, M. R., Stafford, T. W., Jr, McDonald, H. G., Gustafson, C., Rasmussen, M., Cappellini, E., et al. (2011). Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6054), 351–353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P. I. (2005). Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and Microsoft Office Excel ®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rendell, A. P., Chapman, B. M., & Müller, M. S. (Eds.). (2013). OpenMP in the Era of Low Power Devices and Accelerators: 9th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2013, Canberra, ACT, Australia, September 16-18, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8122). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saad, A. P. B. M., Syahrom, A., Harun, M. N., & Kadir, M. R. A. (2016). Effect of Design Parameter Towards Wear Generation. In A. Syahrom, M. N. Harun, & M. R. A. Kadir (Eds.), Wear Prediction on Total Ankle Replacement: Effect of Design Parameters (pp. 43–53). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Computers in Education.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, May 15). Fungal Success Credited To A Virus. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fungal-success-credited-virus/. 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). Urban Transportation: Issues Related to the South Corridor Study (No. RCED-93-195BR). 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

Tse, J. (2009). An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics (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

Williams, J. (2017, July 3). Next Time, Maybe Don’t Use Airbnb. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stierle 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson and Spence 2011; Stierle 2008).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Spence 2011)
Three or more authors: (Waters et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computers in Education
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2197-9987
ISSN (online)	2197-9995
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