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

Covington, W.W.: Helping western forests heal. Nature. 408, 135–136 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, S., Wang, J.: A compact trench-assisted multi-orbital-angular-momentum multi-ring fiber for ultrahigh-density space-division multiplexing (19 rings × 22 modes). Sci. Rep. 4, 3853 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

McLaughlin, A.C., Sher, F., Attfield, J.P.: Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity--antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides. Nature. 436, 829–832 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herrero, M., Thornton, P.K., Notenbaert, A.M., Wood, S., Msangi, S., Freeman, H.A., Bossio, D., Dixon, J., Peters, M., van de Steeg, J., Lynam, J., Parthasarathy Rao, P., Macmillan, S., Gerard, B., McDermott, J., Seré, C., Rosegrant, M.: Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems. Science. 327, 822–825 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser, G.: Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany (2008)

An edited book

Bougé, L., Forsell, M., Träff, J.L., Streit, A., Ziegler, W., Alexander, M., Childs, S. eds: Euro-Par 2007 Workshops: Parallel Processing: HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Müller, H.: 2030: Alps Tourism in the Face of Climate Change. In: Conrady, R. and Buck, M. (eds.) Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009. pp. 57–63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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

Andrew, E.: Scientists Discover Microbes That Have Remained Essentially Unchanged For 2 Billion Years

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: Prisoners Receiving Social Security and Other Federal Retirement, Disability, and Education Benefits. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malherek, M.N.: The Prevalence and Predictors of Parental Corporal Punishment in the United States, (2016)

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

Gordon, M.R.: Defense Secretary Says He Didn’t Contradict President, (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