How to format your references using the Interacting with Computers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interacting with Computers. 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	Download the output style file
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

Seliktar, D., 2012. Designing cell-compatible hydrogels for biomedical applications. Science 336, 1124–1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fratzl, P., Barth, F.G., 2009. Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation. Nature 462, 442–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop, N.A., Lu, T., Yankner, B.A., 2010. Neural mechanisms of ageing and cognitive decline. Nature 464, 529–535.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miritello, G., Lara, R., Cebrian, M., Moro, E., 2013. Limited communication capacity unveils strategies for human interaction. Sci. Rep. 3, 1950.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros, T.F., 2009. Colloids in Agrochemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Presutti, L., Mattioli, F. (Eds.), 2016. Endoscopic Surgery of the Lacrimal Drainage System, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Coelho da Silva, T.L., Neto, A.C.A., Magalhães, R.P., de Farias, V.A.E., de Macêdo, J.A.F., Machado, J.C., 2015. Towards an Efficient and Distributed DBSCAN Algorithm Using MapReduce, in: Cordeiro, J., Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Camp, O., Filipe, J. (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems: 16th International Conference, ICEIS 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-30, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–90.

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 Interacting with Computers.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. This Summer’s Arctic Sea Ice Extent Is The Second Lowest On Record [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/summers-arctic-sea-ice-extent-second-lowest-on-record/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1973. Surface Effect Ships (No. 093812). 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

Mitchell, J.E., 2009. Job satisfaction and burnout among foreign -trained nurses in Saudi Arabia: A mixed-method study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. An Obvious Case For Instant Replay. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seliktar, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fratzl and Barth, 2009; Seliktar, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fratzl and Barth, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Miritello et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Interacting with Computers
Abbreviation	Interact. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0953-5438
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Software