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

Rakic, Pasko.: 2006. 'Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you.' Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5789), pp. 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, Li, and Michael J. Lenardo.: 2003. 'Immunology. The paracaspase connection.' Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5650), pp. 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks-Pollock, Ellen, Gareth O. Roberts, and Matt J. Keeling.: 2014. 'A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain.' Nature 511(7508), pp. 228–231.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yamachika, R., M. Grobis, A. Wachowiak, et al.: 2004. 'Controlled atomic doping of a single C60 molecule.' Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5668), pp. 281–284.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Family Firm Institute, Inc.: 2013. 'Family Enterprise.' Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bloothooft, Gerrit, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, et al., eds.: 2015. 'Population Reconstruction.' 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Meganck, Stijn, Philippe Leray, and Bernard Manderick.: 2007. 'Causal Graphical Models with Latent Variables: Learning and Inference'. In Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ed. Khaled Mellouli. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer pp. 5–16.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan.: 2017. 'NASA Wants To Send Astronauts Near The Moon For A Year Before Going To Mars.' IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-wants-to-send-astronauts-near-the-moon-for-a-year-before-going-to-mars/ [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.: 1975. 'Increased Compliance Needed With Nursing Home Health and Sanitary Standards.' 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

O’Connor, Caleb S.: 2015. 'Measurement of Dispersion and Attenuation in Granular Media using a Filter-Correlation Method.'

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

Saslow, Linda.: 2006. 'Route 110 Plan Worries Some Merchants.' New York Times, pp. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rakic 2006; Yu & Lenardo 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yu & Lenardo 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yamachika 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