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 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

Chin, J. W. (2012). Molecular biology. Reprogramming the genetic code. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6080), 428–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephens, B. B., & Keeling, R. F. (2000). The influence of Antarctic sea ice on glacial-interglacial CO2 variations. Nature, 404(6774), 171–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yudkovsky, N., Ranish, J. A., & Hahn, S. (2000). A transcription reinitiation intermediate that is stabilized by activator. Nature, 408(6809), 225–229.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, X., An, L., Chen, X., Zhang, N., Xia, D., Huang, W., et al. (2013). Durability enhancement of intermetallics electrocatalysts via N-anchor effect for fuel cells. Scientific reports, 3, 3234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon, A., & Itmi, M. (2016). New Autonomous Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Faraco, V. (Ed.). (2013). Lignocellulose Conversion: Enzymatic and Microbial Tools for Bioethanol Production. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma, R., & Goyal, V. (2011). Name Entity Recognition Systems for Hindi Using CRF Approach. In C. Singh, G. Singh Lehal, J. Sengupta, D. V. Sharma, & V. Goyal (Eds.), Information Systems for Indian Languages: International Conference, ICISIL 2011, Patiala, India, March 9-11, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 31–35). 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

Hale, T. (2016, August 11). Golden Curse Tablets Have Been Found In A Roman Tomb. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/golden-curse-tablets-have-been-found-in-a-roman-tomb/. 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. (1987). Research Evidence Concerning Bilingual Education (No. T-PEMD-87-3). 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

Robinson, L. M. (2001). Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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, March 7). Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances. New York Times, p. A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chin 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chin 2012; Stephens and Keeling 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stephens and Keeling 2000)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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