How to format your references using the User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). 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

Marx, Vivien.: 2013. 'Neurobiology: Brain mapping in high resolution.' Nature 503(7474), pp. 147–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shi, Qinghua, and Randall W. King.: 2005. 'Chromosome nondisjunction yields tetraploid rather than aneuploid cells in human cell lines.' Nature 437(7061), pp. 1038–1042.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nadler, Jacob W., Dora E. Angelaki, and Gregory C. DeAngelis.: 2008. 'A neural representation of depth from motion parallax in macaque visual cortex.' Nature 452(7187), pp. 642–645.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Elemans, Coen P. H., Igor L. Y. Spierts, Ulrike K. Müller, et al.: 2004. 'Bird song: superfast muscles control dove’s trill.' Nature 431(7005), pp. 146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Studer, Quint.: 2007. 'Results that Last.' Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mišćenić, Emilia, and Aurélien Raccah, eds.: 2016. 'Legal Risks in EU Law: Interdisciplinary Studies on Legal Risk Management and Better Regulation in Europe.' Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Selgelid, Michael J.: 2016. 'Disease Prevention and Control'. In Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe, Public Health Ethics Analysis, eds. Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, et al. Cham: Springer International Publishing pp. 95–136.

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 User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise.: 2014. 'Hundreds Of Meteors Will Light Up The Night Sky Tonight.' IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-sights-and-sounds-geminid-meteor-shower/ [Accessed October 30, 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.: 2004. 'Gulf War Illnesses: DOD’s Conclusions About U.S. Troops’ Exposure Cannot Be Adequately Supported.' 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

Borisova-Kidder, Ayuna.: 2006. 'Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs.'

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

Lyons, Margaret, and James Poniewozik.: 2016. 'Oh, TV of Little Faith.' New York Times, pp. AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2013; Shi & King 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shi & King 2005)
Three or more authors: (Elemans et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Abbreviation	User Model. User-adapt Interact.
ISSN (print)	0924-1868
ISSN (online)	1573-1391
Scope	Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Education