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

Richardson, D.J., 2010. Applied physics. Filling the light pipe. Science 330, 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, A.K., Phelps, E.A., 2001. Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature 411, 305–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Daniel, S., Chaudhury, M.K., Chen, J.C., 2001. Fast drop movements resulting from the phase change on a gradient surface. Science 291, 633–636.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cino, E.A., Killoran, R.C., Karttunen, M., Choy, W.-Y., 2013. Binding of disordered proteins to a protein hub. Sci. Rep. 3, 2305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olofsson, P., 2014. Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cai, Y. (Ed.), 2011. Computing with Instinct: Rediscovering Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, V., 2015. Art, Research and Society: New Ecology: The Affective Power, in: Bast, G., Carayannis, E.G., Campbell, D.F.J. (Eds.), Arts, Research, Innovation and Society. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–99.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Elon Musk Thinks There’s A “One In Billions” Chance We Don’t Live In A Computer Simulation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-thinks-theres-a-one-in-billions-chance-we-dont-live-in-a-computer-simulation/ (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, 1972. Program To Increase Graduates From Health Professions Schools and Improve the Quality of Their Education (No. B-164031(2)). 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

Shimazoe, J., 2012. The power of forgotten opinions: Why an organization chooses inaction over the public’s safety (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Woolfe, Z., 2013. The Newest Russia House. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richardson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Phelps, 2001; Richardson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Phelps, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Cino et al., 2013)

About the journal

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