How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games citation style

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

B. Maddox, “The double helix and the ‘wronged heroine,’” Nature, vol. 421, no. 6921, pp. 407–408, Jan. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. M. Waterhouse and R. P. Hellens, “Plant biology: Coding in non-coding RNAs,” Nature, vol. 520, no. 7545, pp. 41–42, Apr. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. M. Gratson, M. Xu, and J. A. Lewis, “Microperiodic structures: direct writing of three-dimensional webs,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6981, p. 386, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Gresham et al., “Genome-wide detection of polymorphisms at nucleotide resolution with a single DNA microarray,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5769, pp. 1932–1936, Mar. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. M. Reed and Hrci, The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A. C. Chang and D. Brawer Silva, Eds., Salinity and Drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California: Science, Technology, and Policy, vol. 5. in Global Issues in Water Policy, vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. He, “Genome-Based Computational Vaccine Discovery by Reverse Vaccinology,” in Immunomic Discovery of Adjuvants and Candidate Subunit Vaccines, D. R. Flower and Y. Perrie, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 91–104.

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 Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Daily Diary Reveals How Cannabis Use Affects People With Bipolar,” 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, “GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 3,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 122633, Jun. 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. E. Duran, “Factors and prevention strategies to fight childhood obesity,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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]

Y. Joseph, “Passage Home for a Pioneer’s House,” New York Times, p. A4, Sep. 02, 2017.

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 Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games
ISSN (print)	1943-068X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering