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

Hawks, J., 2001. The Y chromosome and the replacement hypothesis. Science 293, 567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, A.J., You, L., 2014. Cell biology. Cells listen to their inner voice. Science 343, 624–625.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson, N.M., Donnelly, C.A., Anderson, R.M., 2001. Transmission intensity and impact of control policies on the foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain. Nature 413, 542–548.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Castellone, M.D., Teramoto, H., Williams, B.O., Druey, K.M., Gutkind, J.S., 2005. Prostaglandin E2 promotes colon cancer cell growth through a Gs-axin-beta-catenin signaling axis. Science 310, 1504–1510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Larminat, P., 2014. Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wilson, E.J., Hair, J.F. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of the 1996 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Thomson, D.M., Cherniaev, A., Telichev, I., 2015. Conceptual Design of an “Umbrella” Spacecraft for Orbital Debris Shielding, in: Sgobba, T., Rongier, I. (Eds.), Space Safety Is No Accident: The 7th IAASS Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–47.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Galactico Christiano Ronaldo Has The Earliest Stars In The Universe Named After Him [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/galactico-christiano-ronaldo-has-earliest-stars-universe-named-after-him/ (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, 1978. Office of Education’s Efforts To Recover Overpayments from Denver Indian Center (No. B-164031(1).68). 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

Hill, J.A., 2012. Classical three-body systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. For Trump, Everything Is a Rating. 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 (Hawks, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hawks, 2001; Lee and You, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lee and You, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Castellone et al., 2005)

About the journal

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