How to format your references using the Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing (JMLMC). 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

Stokstad, E., SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY: Homegrown Quartz Muddies the Water, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 289, no. 5484, pp. 1449–51, September 1, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munshi, N. V. and Olson, E. N., Translational Medicine. Improving Cardiac Rhythm with a Biological Pacemaker, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 345, no. 6194, pp. 268–69, July 18, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown, E. T., Molnar, P. and Bourlès, D. L., Comment on “Slip-Rate Measurements on the Karakorum Fault May Imply Secular Variations in Fault Motion,” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 309, no. 5739, pp. 1326; author reply 1326, August 26, 2005.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Horstmeyer, R., Judkewitz, B., Vellekoop, I. M., Assawaworrarit, S. and Yang, C., Physical Key-Protected One-Time Pad, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, p. 3543, December 18, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahamed, S. V., Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

Mann, G. S., Blair, J. C., and Garden, A. S. Eds., Imaging of Gynecological Disorders in Infants and Children, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XII, 255 p. 223 illus., 74 illus. in color, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Southerland, S. A., Golden, B. and Enderle, P., The Bounded Nature of Science: An Effective Tool in an Equitable Approach to the Teaching of Science, in Advances in Nature of Science Research: Concepts and Methodologies, M. S. Khine, Ed., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 75–96, 2012.

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 Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing.

Blog post

Davis, J., Prostate Cancer Gene Map Paves Way For Targeted Drugs, IFLScience, May 27, 2015.

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, Aviation and the Environment: Initial Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program Projects Reduce Emissions, and FAA Plans to Assess the Program’s Overall Performance as Participation Increases, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-37, Nov. 7, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yi, M., Interrater Reliability between Novice and Expert Functional Movement Screen Raters, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

Clarey, C., Open Champion Shows Vulnerability Off the Court, Not on It, New York Times, September 13, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stokstad, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stokstad, 2000; Munshi et al., 2014).

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

Two authors: (Munshi et al., 2014)
Three or more authors: (Horstmeyer et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing
ISSN (print)	2689-3967
ISSN (online)	2689-3975
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