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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gershon, D., 2000. Laying a firm foundation for interdisciplinary research endeavours. Nature 406, 107–108.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tulin, A., Spradling, A., 2003. Chromatin loosening by poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) at Drosophila puff loci. Science 299, 560–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lapointe, C.P., Mason, T.G., Smalyukh, I.I., 2009. Shape-controlled colloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals. Science 326, 1083–1086.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghosh, A., Praefcke, G.J.K., Renault, L., Wittinghofer, A., Herrmann, C., 2006. How guanylate-binding proteins achieve assembly-stimulated processive cleavage of GTP to GMP. Nature 440, 101–104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frikha, M., 2013. Ad Hoc Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cuellar, J., Lopez, J., Barthe, G., Pretschner, A. (Eds.), 2011. Security and Trust Management: 6th International Workshop, STM 2010, Athens, Greece, September 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jayanti, P., Petrovic, S., 2005. Efficiently Implementing LL/SC Objects Shared by an Unknown Number of Processes, in: Pal, A., Kshemkalyani, A.D., Kumar, R., Gupta, A. (Eds.), Distributed Computing – IWDC 2005: 7th International Workshop, Kharagpur, India, December 27-30, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–56.

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. Magic Mushrooms Shown To Ease Severe Depression In Groundbreaking Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Developing and Using Questionnaires (No. PEMD-10.1.7). 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

Kramer-Duffield, J., 2010. Beliefs and uses of tagging among undergraduates (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

Krauss, C., 2015. Breakdown at BP Refinery Strains Midwest Gas Prices. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Tulin and Spradling, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Tulin and Spradling, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ghosh et al., 2006)

About the journal

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