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]

R. P. Van Duyne, “Physics. Molecular plasmonics,” Science, vol. 306, no. 5698, pp. 985–986, Nov. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. J. McPhaden and D. Zhang, “Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6872, pp. 603–608, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Fehr, H. Bernhard, and B. Rockenbach, “Egalitarianism in young children,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7208, pp. 1079–1083, Aug. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Joint et al., “Cell-to-cell communication across the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5596, p. 1207, Nov. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. B. Saksena, Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

G. R. Eaton, Quantitative EPR: A Practitioners Guide. Vienna: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Catthoor, P. Raghavan, A. Lambrechts, M. Jayapala, A. Kritikakou, and J. Absar, “Clustered L0 (Loop) Buffer Organization and Combination with Data Clusters,” in Ultra-Low Energy Domain-Specific Instruction-Set Processors, P. Raghavan, A. Lambrechts, M. Jayapala, A. Kritikakou, and J. Absar, Eds. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 115–141.

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]

K. Hamilton, “How Deadly Is Your Dog’s Saliva?,” IFLScience, Jul. 15, 2016.

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, “Need for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration To Improve Certain Aspects of Its Management of the Law Enforcement Education Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 089486, Oct. 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Miller, “A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

G. Vecsey, “With Memories Entrenched, a Hallowed Site Plows Forward,” New York Times, p. SP5, Aug. 30, 2014.

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

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