How to format your references using the International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Clarke J (2003) Physics. Flux qubit completes the hat trick. Science 299:1850–1851
A journal article with 2 authors
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Baker RP, Urban S (2015) Cytosolic extensions directly regulate a rhomboid protease by modulating substrate gating. Nature 523:101–105
A journal article with 3 authors
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Idzko M, Ferrari D, Eltzschig HK (2014) Nucleotide signalling during inflammation. Nature 509:310–317
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Domínguez-Villar D, Carrasco RM, Pedraza J, et al (2013) Early maximum extent of paleoglaciers from Mediterranean mountains during the last glaciation. Sci Rep 3:2034

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Anderson D (2007) TKO Management! John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Amaral A, Neave G, Musselin C, Maassen P (2009) European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
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Amato G, Falchi F, Rabitti F, Vadicamo L (2014) Some Theoretical and Experimental Observations on Permutation Spaces and Similarity Search. In: Traina AJM, Traina C, Cordeiro RLF (eds) Similarity Search and Applications: 7th International Conference, SISAP 2014, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 29-31, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–49

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 International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics.

Blog post
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Luntz S (2014) Common Gene Variations Account for Half of Autism Variation. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-gene-variations-account-half-autism-variation/. Accessed 30 Oct 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
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Government Accountability Office (1976) Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Krishna S (2017) Pediatric Pal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
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Feeney K (2008) Home-Style Colombian. New York Times 14NJ9

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 titleInternational Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
ISSN (print)1868-8071
ISSN (online)1868-808X
ScopeArtificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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