How to format your references using the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 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]

R. Blelloch, “Journal club. A computational biologist looks at how mRNA length changes during development,” Nature, vol. 462, no. 7270, p. 141, Nov. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. M. Whitesides and J. Deutch, “Let’s get practical,” Nature, vol. 469, no. 7328, pp. 21–22, Jan. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Mukandavire, D. L. Smith, and J. G. Morris Jr, “Cholera in Haiti: reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 997, Jan. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Roy, G. M. Hilliard, D. J. Hamilton, J. Luo, M. M. Ostmann, and J. M. Fleckenstein, “Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli EtpA mediates adhesion between flagella and host cells,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7229, pp. 594–598, Jan. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Merrills and J. Fisher, Pharmacy Law and Practice. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

A. A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam, Eds., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: New Research Volume IIIB Proceedings from the Third International Conference on Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Schwartzman, “Academic Drift in Brazilian Education,” in The Forefront of International Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach, A. Maldonado-Maldonado and R. M. Bassett, Eds., in Higher Education Dynamics. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014, pp. 61–72.

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 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “Here Are The 6 Questions That Can Reveal Whether You Have Adult ADHD,” IFLScience.

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, “Students Receiving Federal Aid Are Not Making Satisfactory Academic Progress: Tougher Standards Are Needed,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-82-15, Dec. 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Pope, “Words in the Garden,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2010.

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]

C. Kelly, “Mormon-Backed Mall Breathes Life Into Salt Lake City,” New York Times, p. B6, Jul. 10, 2013.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1556-603X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Theoretical Computer Science