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

Girardi, L. (2014). Astronomy. One good cosmic measure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6200), 1001–1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hickman, A. J., & Sanford, M. S. (2012). High-valent organometallic copper and palladium in catalysis. Nature, 484(7393), 177–185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuna, D. E., Allesina, S., & Kording, K. P. (2012). Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature, 489(7415), 201–202.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, M., Liu, H., Zhao, H., & Li, W. (2013). How to decrease the viscosity of suspension with the second fluid and nanoparticles? Scientific Reports, 3, 3137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klugman, S. A., Panjer, H. H., & Willmot, G. E. (2013). Loss Models: Further Topics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rattani, A., Roli, F., & Granger, E. (Eds.). (2015). Adaptive Biometric Systems: Recent Advances and Challenges. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Saha, S. (2013). Point Symmetry-Based Distance Measures and Their Applications to Clustering. In S. Saha (Ed.), Unsupervised Classification: Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications (pp. 93–123). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, November 6). Why The Drugs Market Isn’t Working And What We Can Do To Fix It. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2010). NASA: Medium Launch Transition Strategy Leverages Ongoing Investments but Is Not Without Risk (GAO-11-107). 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

Ramos, J. (2017). Surviving Childhood Bullying: Impact on Psychosocial Well-Being in Adulthood [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, June 25). New Pension Rules Seek Disclosure. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Girardi, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Girardi, 2014; Hickman & Sanford, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hickman & Sanford, 2012)
Three authors: (Acuna et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Xu 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