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]

T. Elliott, Planetary science. Speed metal, Science 344 (2014) 1086–1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.M. Côté, K.L. Cheney, Animal mimicry: choosing when to be a cleaner-fish mimic, Nature 433 (2005) 211–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y.G. Zhang, M. Pagani, Z. Liu, Response to Comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean,” Science 346 (2014) 1467.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Geijsen, I.J. Uings, C. Pals, J. Armstrong, M. McKinnon, J.A. Raaijmakers, J.W. Lammers, L. Koenderman, P.J. Coffer, Cytokine-specific transcriptional regulation through an IL-5Ralpha interacting protein, Science 293 (2001) 1136–1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Pasternak, H.-U. Hoch, D. Füg, Stahltragwerke im Industriebau, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R.E. Mansel, O. Fodstad, W.G. Jiang, eds., Metastasis of Breast Cancer, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Hishida, Asymptotic Structure of Steady Stokes Flow Around a Rotating Obstacle in Two Dimensions, in: Y. Shibata, Y. Suzuki (Eds.), Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Present and Future: Tokyo, Japan, November 2014, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2016: pp. 95–137.

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]

T. Hale, NASA Just Released A GIPHY Page Full Of The Universe’s Best Moving Images, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-released-a-giphy-page-full-of-the-universes-best-moving-images/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Maldonado, Searching for Confirmation, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

K. Mcbride, When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story, New York Times (2015) A23.

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