How to format your references using the Journal of Interaction Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Interaction Science. 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

Giles, J. (2002). Attosecond science: the fast show. Nature, 420(6917), 737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mohd-Sarip, A., & Verrijzer, C. P. (2004). Molecular biology. A higher order of silence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1484–1485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ragunathan, K., Jih, G., & Moazed, D. (2015). Epigenetics. Epigenetic inheritance uncoupled from sequence-specific recruitment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6230), 1258699.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Westneat, M. W., Betz, O., Blob, R. W., Fezzaa, K., Cooper, W. J., & Lee, W.-K. (2003). Tracheal respiration in insects visualized with synchrotron x-ray imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5606), 558–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, C. (2006). Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Bihanic, D. (Ed.). (2015). Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bødker, S., & Grönvall, E. (2013). Calendars: Time Coordination and Overview in Families and Beyond. In O. W. Bertelsen, L. Ciolfi, M. A. Grasso, & G. A. Papadopoulos (Eds.), ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus (pp. 63–81). London: Springer.

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 Journal of Interaction Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 4). Bad Times Make Pea Plants Gamble. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bad-times-make-pea-plants-gamble/

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. (1996). Airport Privatization: Issues Related to the Sale or Lease of U.S. Commercial Airports (No. RCED-97-3). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grannis, K. S. (2010). Secular spiritual quests in modern American novels, 1922–1960 (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006, November 19). Long Island Weekend: A 48-Hour Treadmill of Activity -- Sunday. New York Times, p. 14LI13.

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	Journal of Interaction Science
Abbreviation	J. Interact. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2194-0827
Scope