How to format your references using the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

E. Pain, Science careers. Measuring the impact of invasive plants, Science 320 (2008) 1516.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.M. Lee, C.S. Craik, Trapping moving targets with small molecules, Science 324 (2009) 213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Butterworth, S. Varma, D. Laurillard, Dyscalculia: from brain to education, Science 332 (2011) 1049–1053.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Sukharev, M. Betanzos, C.S. Chiang, H.R. Guy, The gating mechanism of the large mechanosensitive channel MscL, Nature 409 (2001) 720–724.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.E. Williams, Immunology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. Dawson, M. Gerritsen, eds., Computational Challenges in the Geosciences, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Dominguez-Sal, P. Urbón-Bayes, A. Giménez-Vañó, S. Gómez-Villamor, N. Martínez-Bazán, J.L. Larriba-Pey, Survey of Graph Database Performance on the HPC Scalable Graph Analysis Benchmark, in: H.T. Shen, J. Pei, M.T. Özsu, L. Zou, J. Lu, T.-W. Ling, G. Yu, Y. Zhuang, J. Shao (Eds.), Web-Age Information Management: WAIM 2010 International Workshops: IWGD 2010, XMLDM 2010, WCMT 2010, Jiuzhaigou Valley, China, July 15-17, 2010 Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 37–48.

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 International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Hungry Spiderlings Cannibalize Their Mother, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hungry-spiderlings-cannibalise-their-sacrificial-mother/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities and Potential Improvements for the Air Cargo System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.M. Cox, Is the Procurement Integrity Act “Important” Enough for the Mandatory Disclosure Rule?: A Look at the Procurement Integrity Act and the Case for its Inclusion in the Mandatory Disclosure Rule, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, ‘Bad’ Legal Advice and the Death Penalty, New York Times (2007) A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
Abbreviation	Int. J. Child Comput. Interact.
ISSN (print)	2212-8689
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Education