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. G. Hardie, “Transcription. Targeting the core of transcription,” Science, vol. 329, no. 5996, pp. 1158–1159, Sep. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Nesbit and M. Bradford, “2008 Visualization Challenge,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5897, p. 1767, Sep. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Belmonte, R. Di Clemente, and S. V. Buldyrev, “The Italian primary school-size distribution and the city-size: a complex nexus,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5301, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Xuan et al., “Association between MTHFR polymorphisms and congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis based on 9,329 cases and 15,076 controls,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7311, Dec. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Pahl, Interference Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. C. Dragos and B. Neamtu, Eds., Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. A. Gallo, J. A. Carballido, and I. Ponzoni, “Microarray Biclustering: A Novel Memetic Approach Based on the PISA Platform,” in Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: 7th European Conference, EvoBIO 2009 Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 Proceedings, C. Pizzuti, M. D. Ritchie, and M. Giacobini, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 44–55.

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]

J. Davis, “Canada Approves Genetically Engineered Salmon For Sale,” 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, “Urban Mass Transportation Administration’s Enforcement of Buy America Provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-88-33, May 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. D. Coleman, “The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014.

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]

R. Nordland and S. Timur, “Turkey Fires 15,000 More Public Workers in Crackdown,” New York Times, p. A11, Nov. 22, 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