How to format your references using the Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Colliex C (2015) Chemistry. Tracking the merry dance of nanoparticles. Science 349:232–233

A journal article with 2 authors

Rost S, Revenaugh J (2001) Seismic detection of rigid zones at the top of the core. Science 294:1911–1914

A journal article with 3 authors

Sund J, Andér M, Aqvist J (2010) Principles of stop-codon reading on the ribosome. Nature 465:947–950

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Anderson RM, Latorre-Esteves M, Neves AR, et al (2003) Yeast life-span extension by calorie restriction is independent of NAD fluctuation. Science 302:2124–2126

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Praetorius S, Schößer B (2016) Bentonithandbuch. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Chakraborty B (2013) Statistical Methods for Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, and Personalized Medicine. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nielsen SH, Parsons S (2007) A Generalization of Dung’s Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments. In: Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 54–73

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 Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) High Levels of Cancer-Causing Arsenic in Rice – So Why Isn’t It Regulated in Our Food? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mustico JP (2010) Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Brantley B (2017) A ‘Torch’ Still Sears. New York Times C1

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	Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
ISSN (online)	2192-1962
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