How to format your references using the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 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

Macilwain C (2000) Stanford accelerator takes lead in race to quantify CP violation. Nature 403:586–587

A journal article with 2 authors

Smetacek V, Mechsner F (2004) Making sense. Nature 432:21

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamaguchi M, Shiga M, Kaburaki H (2005) Grain boundary decohesion by impurity segregation in a nickel-sulfur system. Science 307:393–397

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gai Y-P, Li Y-Q, Guo F-Y, et al (2014) Analysis of phytoplasma-responsive sRNAs provide insight into the pathogenic mechanisms of mulberry yellow dwarf disease. Sci Rep 4:5378

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilisoly R (2008) Practical Text Mining with Perl. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hutter D, Stephan W (eds) (2005) Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Jörg H. Siekmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Castellano G, Fanelli AM, Torsello MA (2013) Web Usage Mining: Discovering Usage Patterns for Web Applications. In: Velásquez JD, Palade V, Jain LC (eds) Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–104

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 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Quantum Vibrations Controlled For The First Time Ever, Could Help Find Gravitational Waves. In: IFLScience. 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 (2015) Information Technology: Management Needs to Address Reporting of IRS Investments’ Cost, Schedule, and Scope Information. 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

Farooq AS (2012) Singing the blues: Indicators of mental illness among nursing home elderly. 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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Presents Hard Line To Bring In North Carolina. New York Times A20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Smetacek and Mechsner 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Smetacek and Mechsner 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gai et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
Abbreviation	J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1868-5137
ISSN (online)	1868-5145
Scope