How to format your references using the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Horton, J.C.: Boundary disputes. Nature. 406, 565 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Subrahmanian, V.S., Dickerson, J.: Computer science. What can virtual worlds and games do for national security? Science. 326, 1201–1202 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Asbury, C.L., Fehr, A.N., Block, S.M.: Kinesin moves by an asymmetric hand-over-hand mechanism. Science. 302, 2130–2134 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Amrani, N., Ganesan, R., Kervestin, S., Mangus, D.A., Ghosh, S., Jacobson, A.: A faux 3’-UTR promotes aberrant termination and triggers nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Nature. 432, 112–118 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McAulay, A.D.: Military Laser Technology for Defense. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Mattei, P. ed: Public Accountability and Health Care Governance: Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Noran, O.: An Enterprise Architecture Approach towards Environmental Management. In: Bernus, P., Doumeingts, G., and Fox, M. (eds.) Enterprise Architecture, Integration and Interoperability: IFIP TC 5 International Conference, EAI2N 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 44–55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing.

Blog post

Taub, B.: Addictions Can Be Detected In The Brain Even After Death, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/addiction-can-detected-brain-even-after-death/

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: Guaranteed Student Loans: Eliminating Interest Rate Floors Could Generate Substantial Savings. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1992)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Powell, J.R.: Ocean fronts in the Southern California Current System and their role in structuring zooplankton distributions, diel vertical migration, and size composition, (2013)

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

Corkery, M., Walsh, M.W.: Treasury Considers Plan to Help Puerto Rico, (2015)

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	International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing
ISSN (print)	1955-2513
ISSN (online)	1955-2505
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Modelling and Simulation