How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

P. Smaglik, “Empire building: Vienna,” Nature, vol. 416, no. 6881, pp. 4–5, Apr. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Hochedlinger and R. Jaenisch, “Monoclonal mice generated by nuclear transfer from mature B and T donor cells,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6875, pp. 1035–1038, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Yan, D. A. Huse, and S. R. White, “Spin-liquid ground state of the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet,” Science, vol. 332, no. 6034, pp. 1173–1176, Jun. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Y. McLean et al., “Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits,” Nature, vol. 471, no. 7337, pp. 216–219, Mar. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Lutzke, Surfen in die digitale Zukunft. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. M. Scheffers, Lakes of the World with Google Earth: Understanding our Environment, vol. 16. in Coastal Research Library, vol. 16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Vollmer, “Between biology and philosophy: Our knowledge of the real world,” in Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter, F. G. Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch, and H.-D. Klein, Eds., Vienna: Springer, 2012, pp. 75–88.

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 IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “How To Watch Next Week’s Geminid Meteor Shower,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-watch-next-weeks-geminid-meteor-shower/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “DOE’s Laboratory Facilities,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-96-183R, Jun. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. R. Liang, “A Risk Analysis of the Molybdenum-99 Supply Chain Using Bayesian Networks,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2017.

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

[1]

M. S. Schmidt, “Trump Appealed to Comey to Halt Inquiry Into Aide,” New York Times, p. A1, May 16, 2017.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games
ISSN (print)	1943-068X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering