How to format your references using the Minds and Machines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Minds and Machines. 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

French, R. M. (2012). Computer science. Dusting off the Turing test. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6078), 164–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimmins, S., & Sassone-Corsi, P. (2005). Chromatin remodelling and epigenetic features of germ cells. Nature, 434(7033), 583–589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bridgham, J. T., Carroll, S. M., & Thornton, J. W. (2006). Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5770), 97–101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Homma, T., Ishibashi, D., Nakagaki, T., Fuse, T., Sano, K., Satoh, K., et al. (2014). Persistent prion infection disturbs the function of Oct-1, resulting in the down-regulation of murine interferon regulatory factor-3. Scientific reports, 4, 6006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schober, H. (2015). Transparent Shells. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Stockmann, R., & Meyer, W. (Eds.). (2016). The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Basic, N., Lipovac, V., & Lipovac, A. (2012). Practical Analysis of xDR Based Signaling Network Performance and End-to-End QoS. In R. Benlamri (Ed.), Networked Digital Technologies: 4th International Conference, NDT 2012, Dubai, UAE, April 24-26, 2012, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 34–45). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Minds and Machines.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 19). Meet Rhinorex: The Aptly-Named “King Nose” Hadrosaur. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1993). Transportation: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Maritime Industry (No. T-RCED-93-24). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herron, M. (2013). Prescripton labels: Do you know what medication you are taking? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Baker, K. J. (2016, November 25). White-Collar Supremacy. New York Times, p. A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (French 2012).
This sentence cites two references (French 2012; Kimmins and Sassone-Corsi 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kimmins and Sassone-Corsi 2005)
Three or more authors: (Homma et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Minds and Machines
Abbreviation	Minds Mach. (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0924-6495
ISSN (online)	1572-8641
Scope	Philosophy Artificial Intelligence