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:

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

Vella D (2015) ROBOTICS. Two leaps forward for robot locomotion. Science 349:472–473

A journal article with 2 authors

Folkman J, Camphausen K (2001) Cancer. What does radiotherapy do to endothelial cells? Science 293:227–228

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun Z-D, Takagi K, Matsushima F (2005) Separation and conversion dynamics of four nuclear spin isomers of ethylene. Science 310:1938–1941

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stark H, Dube P, Lührmann R, Kastner B (2001) Arrangement of RNA and proteins in the spliceosomal U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Nature 409:539–542

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curtis PM (2011) Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liebscher A, Münch U (2015) Geological Storage of CO2 – Long Term Security Aspects: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 22. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ligtvoet A, Herder PM (2012) Simulation and Gaming for Understanding the Complexity of Cooperation in Industrial Networks. In: Hammami O, Krob D, Voirin J-L (eds) Complex Systems Design & Management: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management CSDM 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 81–92

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

Davis J (2016) Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing, While Arctic Sea Ice Is Melting. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-antarctic-sea-ice-growing-while-arctic-sea-ice-melting/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Has Taken Actions to Fulfill Its Core Mission and Address Workforce Issues, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Workforce Survey. 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

Burchman EK (2014) A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation. 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

Herskovic L (2017) Who’s That Cat? New York Times A21

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

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