How to format your references using the International Journal of Human - Computer Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Human - Computer Studies. 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

Brin, D., 2000. Reality check. Nature 404, 229.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zoncu, R., Sabatini, D.M., 2011. Cell biology. The TASCC of secretion. Science 332, 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Machens, C.K., Romo, R., Brody, C.D., 2005. Flexible control of mutual inhibition: a neural model of two-interval discrimination. Science 307, 1121–1124.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, H.S., Tan, Y., Ma, W., Merkurjev, D., Destici, E., Ma, Q., Suter, T., Ohgi, K., Friedman, M., Skowronska-Krawczyk, D., Rosenfeld, M.G., 2018. Pluripotency factors functionally premark cell-type-restricted enhancers in ES cells. Nature 556, 510–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koperski, J., 2014. The Physics of Theism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Colombo, L., Giordano, S. (Eds.), 2007. Introduzione alla Teoria della elasticità: Meccanica dei solidi continui in regime lineare elastico, UNITEXT. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Gustin, J.L., Settles, A.M., 2015. Seed Phenomics, in: Fritsche-Neto, R., Borém, A. (Eds.), Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping Is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 67–82.

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 Human - Computer Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. This NASA Asteroid Mission Is Going To Bring A Huge Chunk Of Space Rock To Earth [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, 1984. OMB Needs To More Fully Consider Government-Wide Implications in Its Telecommunications Initiatives (No. IMTEC-84-21). 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

Bethany, M.P., 2014. Business continuity planning: Identifying gaps, patterns and justifications (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

Billard, M., 2012. Silent Partners No Longer. New York Times E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brin, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brin, 2000; Zoncu and Sabatini, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Zoncu and Sabatini, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Human - Computer Studies
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1071-5819
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Human-Computer Interaction Software General Engineering Education Human Factors and Ergonomics