How to format your references using the IEEE Access citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Access. 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]

D. Paillard, “Atmosphere. What drives the ice age cycle?,” Science, vol. 313, no. 5786, pp. 455–456, Jul. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Ban and X. Chen, “Counter-diabatic driving for fast spin control in a two-electron double quantum dot,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6258, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. B. Herr, E. R. Ballister, and P. J. Bjorkman, “Insights into IgA-mediated immune responses from the crystal structures of human FcalphaRI and its complex with IgA1-Fc,” Nature, vol. 423, no. 6940, pp. 614–620, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. M. Wittman, J. A. Tyson, D. Kirkman, I. Dell’Antonio I., and G. Bernstein, “Detection of weak gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies by cosmic dark matter at large scales,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6783, pp. 143–148, May 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Mesterton-Gibbons, A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

[1]

W.-S. Hu, Ed., Cell Culture Engineering, vol. 101. in Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol. 101. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. J. Sarbo, J. I. Farkas, and A. J. J. van Breemen, “A world of signs,” in Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation, J. I. Farkas and A. J. J. van Breemen, Eds., in Cognitive Technologies. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 55–65.

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 Access.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “We Will Soon Be Able To Test For Cancer Or Heart Disease As Easily As Pregnancy,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-will-soon-be-able-to-test-for-cancer-or-heart-disease-as-easily-as-pregnancy/

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, “Commercial Aviation: Despite Industry Turmoil, Low-Cost Airlines Are Growing and Profitable,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-837T, Jun. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Chamoun, “Molecular characterization of a subset of KRAB-ZFPs,” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2010.

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]

L. F. Burghardt, “The Legacies They Left,” New York Times, p. 14LI7, Jan. 01, 2006.

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 Access
Abbreviation	IEEE Access
ISSN (print)	2169-3536
Scope	General Computer Science General Engineering General Materials Science