How to format your references using the Swarm Intelligence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Swarm 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

Kreeger, K. (2003). A winning proposal. Nature, 426(6962), 102–103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry, R., & Mauritzen, C. (2005). Dilution of the northern North Atlantic Ocean in recent decades. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5729), 1772–1774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baskin, A., Sadeghpour, H. R., & Král, P. (2014). Correlated diskoid-like electronic states. Scientific reports, 4, 5913.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choi, J.-H., Li, Z., Cui, P., Fan, X., Zhang, H., Zeng, C., & Zhang, Z. (2013). Drastic reduction in the growth temperature of graphene on copper via enhanced London dispersion force. Scientific reports, 3, 1925.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, G. J. (2013). The U.S. Technology Skills Gap. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Onozuka, M., & Yen, C.-T. (Eds.). (2008). Novel Trends in Brain Science: Brain Imaging, Learning and Memory, Stress and Fear, and Pain. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Wegner, L. H. (2015). Interplay of Water and Nutrient Transport: A Whole-Plant Perspective. In U. Lüttge & W. Beyschlag (Eds.), Progress in Botany: Vol. 76 (pp. 109–141). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Swarm Intelligence.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 14). Panda Twins Born At Toronto Zoo. 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. (1994). Space Shuttle: Incomplete Data and Funding Approach Increase Cost Risk for Upgrade Program (No. NSIAD-94-23). 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

Vianna, M. H. (2015). An exploration of the factors that influence Brazilian students’ fluency of English: A case study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, September 15). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Readies Answer to Bush On Draft Issue. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Curry and Mauritzen 2005; Kreeger 2003).

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

Two authors: (Curry and Mauritzen 2005)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Swarm Intelligence
Abbreviation	Swarm Intell.
ISSN (print)	1935-3812
ISSN (online)	1935-3820
Scope	Artificial Intelligence