How to format your references using the Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing (JMLMC). 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

Turner, J. A., Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 305, no. 5686, pp. 972–74, August 13, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sui, H. and Downing, K. H., Molecular Architecture of Axonemal Microtubule Doublets Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography, Nature, vol. 442, no. 7101, pp. 475–78, July 27, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imaizumi, K., Shih, J. Y. and Farris, H. E., Global Hyper-Synchronous Spontaneous Activity in the Developing Optic Tectum, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, p. 1552, 2013.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gasser, S., Orsulic, S., Brown, E. J. and Raulet, D. H., The DNA Damage Pathway Regulates Innate Immune System Ligands of the NKG2D Receptor, Nature, vol. 436, no. 7054, pp. 1186–90, August 25, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser, C. M. and Kochard, L. E., Top Hedge Fund Investors, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Sango, K. and Yamauchi, J. Eds., Schwann Cell Development and Pathology, Tokyo: Springer Japan, X, 174 p. 39 illus., 22 illus. in color, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Marquardt, W., Morbach, J., Wiesner, A. and Yang, A., Meta Model, in OntoCAPE: A Re-Usable Ontology for Chemical Process Engineering, J. Morbach A. Wiesner and A. Yang, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 57–108, 2010.

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 Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., First Images Arrive From The Latest Mars Orbiter, IFLScience, November 30, 2016.

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, Allowances for Independent Research and Development Costs in Negotiated Contracts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 094459, Mar. 9, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ng, A., Exploring the Perceptions of Health Care Leaders: Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers among Chinese Canadian Women, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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

Feeney, K., Downtown Dumplings, New York Times, January 11, 2009.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Turner, 2004; Sui et al., 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sui et al., 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gasser et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing
ISSN (print)	2689-3967
ISSN (online)	2689-3975
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