How to format your references using the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 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

Maquat LE (2002) Molecular biology. Skiing toward nonstop mRNA decay. Science 295:2221–2222

A journal article with 2 authors

Neufeld P, Scheck B (2010) Making forensic science more scientific. Nature 464:351

A journal article with 3 authors

Lemieux C, Otis C, Turmel M (2000) Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution. Nature 403:649–652

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Peng N, Meng N, Wang S, et al (2014) An activator of mTOR inhibits oxLDL-induced autophagy and apoptosis in vascular endothelial cells and restricts atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E⁻/⁻ mice. Sci Rep 4:5519

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Botto F (2003) Dictionary of e-Business. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dam KH van, Nikolic I, Lukszo Z (eds) (2013) Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Jarrah AS, Laubenbacher R (2009) On the Algebraic Geometry of Polynomial Dynamical Systems. In: Putinar M, Sullivant S (eds) Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry. Springer, New York, NY, pp 109–123

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 Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Light Pollution Shuts Down the Anti-Bat Defenses of Moths. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/light-pollution-shuts-down-anti-bat-defenses-moths/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) GAO Research Guide: Computers and Information Technology Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weber TR (2010) Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Koblin J (2017) Hackers Briefly Seize HBO’s Twitter Account in the Latest in a Series of Breaches. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maquat 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Maquat 2002; Neufeld and Scheck 2010).

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

Two authors: (Neufeld and Scheck 2010)
Three or more authors: (Peng et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
Abbreviation	J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1868-5137
ISSN (online)	1868-5145
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