How to format your references using the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing. 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

Mysak, L.A.: Oceanography. Patterns of Arctic circulation. Science. 293, 1269–1270 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mechoulam, R., Lichtman, A.H.: Neuroscience. Stout guards of the central nervous system. Science. 302, 65–67 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Karner, M.B., DeLong, E.F., Karl, D.M.: Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean. Nature. 409, 507–510 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, M., Kuratani, K., Kojima, T., Takeichi, N., Senoh, H., Kiyobayashi, T.: Indigo carmine: an organic crystal as a positive-electrode material for rechargeable sodium batteries. Sci. Rep. 4, 3650 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, C., Lin, J.: Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Paul, G., Vaudenay, S. eds: Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2013: 14th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Mumbai, India, December 7-10, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

González-Burgueño, A., Santiago, S., Escobar, S., Meadows, C., Meseguer, J.: Analysis of the PKCS#11 API Using the Maude-NPA Tool. In: Chen, L. and Matsuo, S. (eds.) Security Standardisation Research: Second International Conference, SSR 2015, Tokyo, Japan, December 15-16, 2015, Proceedings. pp. 86–106. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 on Interactive Design and Manufacturing.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Coffee Before Bed Delays Our Internal Clock, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coffee-bed-delays-our-internal-clock/

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: ADP Modernization: FCC’s Automation Planning Is Inadequate. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warner, T.: California Assembly Bill 2404 Fair Play in Community Sports Act compliance procedures manual, (2015)

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

Barron, J.: Theater Evokes a Non-Disposable Experience, And It Starts With What’s Served at the Bar, (2017)

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 on Interactive Design and Manufacturing
ISSN (print)	1955-2513
ISSN (online)	1955-2505
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Modelling and Simulation