How to format your references using the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 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

Pearse, J. S. (2006). Ecological role of purple sea urchins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5801), 940–941.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicolet, A., & Zolla, F. (2009). Physics. Cloaking with curved spaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andreae, M. O., Jones, C. D., & Cox, P. M. (2005). Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future. Nature, 435(7046), 1187–1190.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ko, H., Takei, K., Kapadia, R., Chuang, S., Fang, H., Leu, P. W., … Javey, A. (2010). Ultrathin compound semiconductor on insulator layers for high-performance nanoscale transistors. Nature, 468(7321), 286–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waller, F. J. (2011). Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Del Brutto, O. H. (2014). Cysticercosis of the Human Nervous System. (H. H. García, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Higashi, N. (2015). Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy: Industrial Applications. In Y. Ozaki & S. Kawata (Eds.), Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (pp. 77–98). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 1). Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes Have Arrived In The United States. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zikacarrying-mosquitoes-have-arrived-in-the-united-states/

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. (2007). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Progress Continues to Be Made in Establishing Corporate Management Controls, but Further Steps Are Needed (No. GAO-07-733). 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

Hawkins, S. H. (2017). Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1999, February 28). As Cupid Sheathes Arrows, Voodoo Dolls Come Out. New York Times, p. 146.

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	Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Abbreviation	Auton. Agent. Multi. Agent. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1387-2532
ISSN (online)	1573-7454
Scope	Artificial Intelligence