How to format your references using the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 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

Klemperer W (2001) Astronomy. The complex story of H2. Science 293:815–816

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao KQ, Shubin NH (2001) Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China. Nature 410:574–577

A journal article with 3 authors

van Os J, Kenis G, Rutten BPF (2010) The environment and schizophrenia. Nature 468:203–212

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Striepens N, Kendrick KM, Hanking V, et al (2013) Elevated cerebrospinal fluid and blood concentrations of oxytocin following its intranasal administration in humans. Sci Rep 3:3440

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonnini S, Corain L, Marozzi M, Salmaso L (2014) Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing: Rank and Permutation Methods with Applications in R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hagen SJ (2015) The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Fan N, Mujahid S, Zhang J, et al (2013) Nurse Scheduling Problem: An Integer Programming Model with a Practical Application. In: Pardalos PM, Georgiev PG, Papajorgji P, Neugaard B (eds) Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–98

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 on Multimodal User Interfaces.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Develop Bioplastic From Food Scraps. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges. 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

Donohue J (2010) Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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 MR (2017) U.S. Military Says It Shot Down Drone That Attacked American Allies in Syria. New York Times A10

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 on Multimodal User Interfaces
ISSN (print)	1783-7677
ISSN (online)	1783-8738
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Signal Processing

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