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

Trenberth, K.E., 2002. Changes in tropical clouds and radiation. Science 296, 2095.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loreau, M., Hector, A., 2001. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature 412, 72–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otterbein, L.R., Graceffa, P., Dominguez, R., 2001. The crystal structure of uncomplexed actin in the ADP state. Science 293, 708–711.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, K., Xie, X., Xie, J., Jiao, S., Chen, X., Zhao, X., Wang, X., Wei, L., 2014. Cell-based therapy for acute and chronic liver failures: distinct diseases, different choices. Sci. Rep. 4, 6494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, R.N., 2010. Practical Relativity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pitilakis, K., Franchin, P., Khazai, B., Wenzel, H. (Eds.), 2014. SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Facilities: Methodology and Applications, Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pinder, J., 2011. A Lady’s Guide to Salvation: The Miroir des dames Compilation, in: Green, K., Mews, C. (Eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 45–52.

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. What It’s Like To Be A Woman Working In Science, And How To Make It Better [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-it-s-be-woman-working-science-and-how-make-it-better/ (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, 2012. Postsecondary Education: Financial Trends in Public and Private Nonprofit Institutions (No. GAO-12-179). 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

Zhao, J., 2012. Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Feeney, K., 2006. The Best of Brazil. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trenberth, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Loreau and Hector, 2001; Trenberth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Loreau and Hector, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

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