How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 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. A. Lee, “Physics. Seeking out Majorana under the microscope,” Science, vol. 346, no. 6209, pp. 545–546, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Ganopolski and S. Rahmstorf, “Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model,” Nature, vol. 409, no. 6817, pp. 153–158, Jan. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. S. Sim, T. Bosak, and S. Ono, “Large sulfur isotope fractionation does not require disproportionation,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6038, pp. 74–77, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Bai, X. Han, X.-C. Zheng, and L. Qiao, “Both high reliability and giant electrocaloric strength in BaTiO₃ ceramics,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2895, Oct. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Maji and S. K. Pal, Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bernkop-Schnürch, Ed., Oral Delivery of Macromolecular Drugs: Barriers, Strategies and Future Trends. New York, NY: Springer US, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Sabia, F. Napolitano, S. Claps, A. Braghieri, N. Piazzolla, and C. Pacelli, “Feeding, Nutrition and Sustainability in Dairy Enterprises: The Case of Mediterranean Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis),” in The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin, A. Vastola, Ed., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 57–64.

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 Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “New Battery Promises More Power In Half The Size,” IFLScience.

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, “Space Operations: NASA’s Communications Support for Earth Orbiting Spacecraft,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-89-41, Apr. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. M. Addington, “Students’ Preferences for Information Sources during the Undergraduate College Search Process: The Influence of Technology,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

[1]

J. Hodgman, “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman,” New York Times, p. MM16, Aug. 11, 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	Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abbreviation	Can. J. Electr. Comput. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0840-8688
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Electrical and Electronic Engineering