How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 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. Bickford, “Animal behavior: male parenting of New Guinea froglets,” Nature, vol. 418, no. 6898, pp. 601–602, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Amamoto and P. Arlotta, “Development-inspired reprogramming of the mammalian central nervous system,” Science, vol. 343, no. 6170, p. 1239882, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. R. Neves, P. T. Ram, and R. Iyengar, “G protein pathways,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5573, pp. 1636–1639, May 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. H. Park, P. Scheerer, K. P. Hofmann, H.-W. Choe, and O. P. Ernst, “Crystal structure of the ligand-free G-protein-coupled receptor opsin,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7201, pp. 183–187, Jul. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Mathian and L. Sanders, Spatio-Temporal Approaches. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Wyrzykowski, E. Deelman, J. Dongarra, K. Karczewski, J. Kitowski, and K. Wiatr, Eds., Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I, vol. 9573. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9573. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Suzuki, T. Kobayashi, and J. Boase, “Political Conversations as Civic Engagement: Examining Patterns from Mobile Communication Logs in Japan,” in Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication, R. Wei, Ed., in Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016, pp. 57–79.

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 Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “More Than 200 Life-Extending Genes Identified,” 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, “Amtrak: Management and Accountability Issues Contribute to Unprofitability of Food and Beverage Service,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-761T, Jun. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. A. Magner, “Evaluation of admissions criteria and practices with regards to successful online learning styles and characteristics,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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]

A. L. Baker and B. Mueller, “Suspect in Machete Killing Said Neighbors Spied on Him, Officials Say,” New York Times, p. A21, Jan. 26, 2016.

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 Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev.
ISSN (print)	1943-0604
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software