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

Goldston, D. (2009). The climate to get things done. Nature, 458(7234), 21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl, J. L., & Jones, J. D. (2001). Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature, 411(6839), 826–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, W., Wen, X., & Wang, Z. L. (2013). Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 952–957.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xie, Z. Q., Bai, J., Zhou, Y. S., Gao, Y., Park, J., Guillemet, T., … Lu, Y. F. (2014). Control of crystallographic orientation in diamond synthesis through laser resonant vibrational excitation of precursor molecules. Scientific reports, 4, 4581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paczosa, S., & Peruchini, C. (2013). Selling Professional and Financial Services Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nagel, W. E., Kröner, D. H., & Resch, M. M. (Eds.). (2016). High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ´15: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2015 (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dyke Parunak, H., Bisson, R., Brueckner, S., Matthews, R., & Sauter, J. (2006). Representing Dispositions and Emotions in Simulated Combat. In S. G. Thompson & R. Ghanea-Hercock (Eds.), Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: International Workshop, DAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers (pp. 51–65). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Fang, J. (2015, September 10). Ancient Beaked Whale Hunted In Shallow Waters. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-beaked-whale-hunted-shallow-waters/

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. (1988). Biotechnology: Managing the Risks of Field Testing Genetically Engineered Organisms (No. RCED-88-27). 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

Culumber, J. J. (2017). Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, August 15). Sharapova Given Wild Card Into U.S. Open, Her First Major Since 2016. New York Times, p. B9.

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