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

Wightman RM (2006) Detection technologies. Probing cellular chemistry in biological systems with microelectrodes. Science 311:1570–1574

A journal article with 2 authors

Marx FG, Uhen MD (2010) Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales. Science 327:993–996

A journal article with 3 authors

Santer BD, Wigley TML, Taylor KE (2011) The reproducibility of observational estimates of surface and atmospheric temperature change. Science 334:1232–1233

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Peyser LA, Vinson AE, Bartko AP, Dickson RM (2001) Photoactivated fluorescence from individual silver nanoclusters. Science 291:103–106

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dehn MJ (2010) Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Caputo B, Müller H, Syeda-Mahmood T, et al (2010) Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support: First MICCAI International Workshop, MCBR-CDS 2009, London, UK, September 20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schreiber R (2007) Manycores in the Future. In: Perrott R, Chapman BM, Subhlok J, et al (eds) High Performance Computing and Communications: Third International Conference, HPCC 2007, Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 5–5

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

Carpineti A (2016) New NASA Mission Will Visit An Asteroid That Has A Slim Chance Of Hitting Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-nasa-mission-will-visit-an-asteroid-that-has-a-slim-chance-of-hitting-earth/. 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 (1983) Use of Federally Supported Research Facilities. 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

Nguyen JR (2012) Staging Vietnamese America: Music and the performance of Vietnamese American identities. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Kelly M (1992) THE TRANSITION: The President-Elect; Despite Some Signs of Recovery, Clinton Points to Economic Perils. New York Times A1

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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