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]

E. Pain, “Science careers. An adventurous physicist,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5882, p. 1517, Jun. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. P. Ostriker and P. Steinhardt, “New light on dark matter,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5627, pp. 1909–1913, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Flores, M. L. Cayuela, and M. A. Blasco, “Effects of telomerase and telomere length on epidermal stem cell behavior,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5738, pp. 1253–1256, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. C. Hofmann et al., “Designing metallic glass matrix composites with high toughness and tensile ductility,” Nature, vol. 451, no. 7182, pp. 1085–1089, Feb. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Soustelle, Phase Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

K. Sugioka, M. Meunier, and A. Piqué, Eds., Laser Precision Microfabrication, vol. 135. in Springer Series in Materials Science, vol. 135. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Ding, “On Zero-Knowledge with Strict Polynomial-Time Simulation and Extraction from Differing-Input Obfuscation for Circuits,” in Information Theoretic Security: 8th International Conference, ICITS 2015, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2015. Proceedings, A. Lehmann and S. Wolf, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 51–68.

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]

J. Fang, “Researchers Uncover The Human ‘Death Smell,’” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-cadaver-dogs-are-smelling/

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, “DOD Aviator Positions: Training Requirements and Incentive Pay Could Be Reduced,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-97-60, Feb. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. P. Cuomo, “SB 48 and social media: Constituing an audience for and against California’s LGBT education legislation,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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]

K. Crow, “These Political Button Men Are Relic Makers Now,” New York Times, p. 144, Oct. 29, 2000.

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 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