How to format your references using the Progress in Artificial Intelligence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Artificial Intelligence. 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

Jaenike, J.: Comment on “Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.” Science. 316, 1285; author reply 1285 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro, A., Barton, N.H.: Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence--accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes. Science. 300, 321–324 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, Q., Krug, R.M., Tao, Y.J.: The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA. Nature. 444, 1078–1082 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Elias, A., Crayton, S.H., Warden-Rothman, R., Tsourkas, A.: Quantitative comparison of tumor delivery for multiple targeted nanoparticles simultaneously by multiplex ICP-MS. Sci. Rep. 4, 5840 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta, J.: Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactors for Petroleum Refining. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Li, X.: Graph Energy. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Fisch, M.J.: Fatigue. In: Ettinger, D.S. (ed.) Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy. pp. 87–107. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2009)

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 Progress in Artificial Intelligence.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: What Happens When you put a Mouse in Mountain Dew for 30 Days?

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: Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1971)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Partma, L.: Media: Pretrial publicity and its effects, (2009)

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

Crow, K.: Students Take On Whooshing Traffic, (2001)

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	Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Abbreviation	Prog. Artif. Intell.
ISSN (print)	2192-6352
ISSN (online)	2192-6360
Scope	Artificial Intelligence

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