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]

G. Tyndall, “Chemistry. Vibrational excitation can control tropospheric chemistry,” Science, vol. 337, no. 6098, pp. 1046–1047, Aug. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Abbott and D. Cyranoski, “Biologists seek to head off future sources of infection,” Nature, vol. 423, no. 6935, p. 3, May 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. H. Baughman, A. A. Zakhidov, and W. A. de Heer, “Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5582, pp. 787–792, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Min et al., “FALCON: fast and unbiased reconstruction of high-density super-resolution microscopy data,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4577, Apr. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. J. E. Rodda and M. A. Little, Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J. Rhodes, The q-theory of Finite Semigroups. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Banerjee and B. Sur, “Primitive Channels: Concurrency Control,” in SystemC and SystemC-AMS in Practice: SystemC 2.3, 2.2 and SystemC-AMS 1.0, B. Sur, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 13–24.

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]

R. Andrews, “Supercomputer Simulation Of Milky Way Solves Mystery Of Missing Dwarf Galaxies,” IFLScience, Sep. 12, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supercomputer-simulation-milky-way-missing-dwarf-galaxies/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “ADP Planning: FDA’s Plans to Improve Processing of Medical Device and Drug Applications,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-89-58, Jun. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. D. Eskridge, “Municipal government: Does institutional structural reform make a difference in local government?,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2012.

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]

J. Goldstein, “Scrutiny of Decorated Detective Raises Specter of Lying as Routine,” New York Times, p. A1, Oct. 10, 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

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