How to format your references using the Learning, Culture and Social Interaction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. 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

Muro, M. (2000). ARCHAEOLOGY: Arizona to Take High Road to Preservation? Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5491), 422b–423b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falk, A., & Szech, N. (2013). Morals and markets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 707–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lim, M., Metzler, R., & Bar-Yam, Y. (2007). Global pattern formation and ethnic/cultural violence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1540–1544.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Faraci, G., Pennisi, A. R., Alberti, A., Ruggeri, R., & Mannino, G. (2013). Giant photoluminescence emission in crystalline faceted Si grains. Scientific Reports, 3, 2674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberg, A. (2017). Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Decker, B. D., & Chadwick, D. W. (Eds.). (2012). Communications and Multimedia Security: 13th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2012, Canterbury, UK, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7394). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Visioli, A., & Zhong, Q.-C. (2011). Plug&Control. In Q. Zhong (Ed.), Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time (pp. 87–92). 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 Learning, Culture and Social Interaction.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 20). Tofu Is Providing Green Energy For A Village In Indonesia. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tofu-providing-green-energy-village-indonesia/

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. (2008). Tax Preparers: Oregon’s Regulatory Regime May Lead to Improved Federal Tax Return Accuracy and Provides a Possible Model for National Regulation (GAO-08-781). 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

Huger Marsh, D. P. (2012). Perspectives of disciplinary problems and practices in elementary schools [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Choi, M. H. K. (2015, March 3). LaCroix Sparkling Water. New York Times, MM28.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Muro, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Falk & Szech, 2013; Muro, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Falk & Szech, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Faraci et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
Abbreviation	Learn. Cult. Soc. Interact.
ISSN (print)	2210-6561
Scope	Education