Wikipedia provides a number of citations used in the sciences, however does one stand out in computer science and software engineering related documents? My initial guess is to the IEEE format, as they have a number of conferences and publications related to both fields, but I couldn’t find anything definite.
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Follow the standards of the publication you plan on submitting to. All conferences and journals should have formatting information available during the submission process, and will often even provide LaTeX stubs that you can work off of.
If you’re just doing a paper for a class, check with your professor if there’s a publication’s formatting style they prefer, and if they don’t have one, feel free to pick your own out of the stubs you can get a hold of.
The big takeaway here is that if you’re worrying about measuring margins and placing commas, you’re either reinventing the wheel, not using LaTeX, or probably both, and if you’re serious about participating in the academic side of CS, it’s something you should learn as soon as possible.