Interfaces Referencing Guide

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This is the Citationsy guide to Interfaces citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Interfaces.

How to do citations in Interfaces style?

How do you cite a book in the Interfaces referencing style?

Here’s an example book citation in Interfaces using placeholders:

Last Name FN (2000) Title Edition. Editor Last Name EFN, ed. (Publisher, City).

So if we want to cite, for example, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by Joanne K. Rowling we’d do so like this:
Interfaces citation:

Rowling JK (1997) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 1st ed. (Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, London).

And an in-text citation book citation in Interfaces looks like this: (Rowling 1997)

How to reference a journal article in the Interfaces citation style?
How do you cite scientific papers in Interfaces format?

Here’s a Interfaces journal citation example using placeholders:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Container Volume(Issue):pages Used.

So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in Interfaces:

Petit C, Sieffermann J (2007) Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. 18(1):161-172.

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Petit and Sieffermann 2007)

How to cite a website in a paper in Interfaces style?

Here’s an Interfaces example website reference:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author2 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Retrieved (April 12, 2021), https://www.example.com.

To reference the article located at this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:

Tran M (2008) Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President. Retrieved (April 12, 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083.

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Tran 2008)

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How to cite a YouTube video Interfaces

Here’s a Interfaces citation YouTube video example:

ChannelName (2000) Title. YouTube. Retrieved (April 12, 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX.

So how to cite a video Interfaces?

Pixar (2015) Pizza Clip — Inside Out. YouTube. Retrieved (April 12, 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ.

And an in-text video citation would look like this: (Pixar 2015)

How to cite a podcast using Interfaces referencing style

It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.
Here’s how to reference a podcast it in Interfaces.

Lastname F (2000) Title.

Podcast referencing example in Interfaces using “This American Life” episode 640:

This American Life (2018) 640: Five Women.

And an in-text citation would look like this: (This American Life 2018)

How to cite a piece of music or a song using Interfaces referencing style?

An example song citation in Interfaces.

Lastname F (2000) Song Title

Let‘s say we want to reference “Here Comes the Sun” off The Beatles “Abbey Road” album in Interfaces:

The Beatles (1969) Here Comes the Sun

And an in-text citation would look like this: (The Beatles 1969)

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