How to format your references using the CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. 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

[1]

D.W. Christianson, Biochemistry. Five golden rings, Science 311 (2006) 1382–1383.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Maslov, K. Sneppen, Specificity and stability in topology of protein networks, Science 296 (2002) 910–913.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Kumada, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, Low-frequency spin dynamics in a canted antiferromagnet, Science 313 (2006) 329–332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.M. Mueth, G.F. Debregeas, G.S. Karczmar, P.J. Eng, S.R. Nagel, H.M. Jaeger, Signatures of granular microstructure in dense shear flows, Nature 406 (2000) 385–389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.B. Rowe, Modern Grinding Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Ferrari, N.M. Weststrate, eds., The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Dragomirescu, F.G. Filip, The Knowledge Society Agenda in Romania: From Experts’ Vision to Public Perception, in: M.D. Lytras, J.M. Carroll, E. Damiani, R.D. Tennyson, D. Avison, G. Vossen, P. Ordonez De Pablos (Eds.), The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 24–31.

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 CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Humans, Not Larger Predators, To Blame For Cheetah Decline, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-not-larger-predators-blame-cheetah-decline/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Mendez, Examination of friendship and burnout among child welfare workers, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Court to Weigh Disparities in Cocaine Laws, New York Times (2007) A15.

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	CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
Abbreviation	CAAI Trans. Intell. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2468-2322
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