How to format your references using the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 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]

E. Stehfest, “Diet: Food choices for health and planet,” Nature, vol. 515, no. 7528, pp. 501–502, Nov. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Belkaid and J. Grainger, “Immunology. Mucus coat, a dress code for tolerance,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6157, pp. 432–433, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Jiang, Q. Li, and S. Fan, “Nanotechnology: spinning continuous carbon nanotube yarns,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6909, p. 801, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Blomqvist et al., “Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6907, pp. 613–615, Oct. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Layer of Protection Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. I. Hammoud, Ed., Interactive Video: Algorithms and Technologies. in Signals and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Zhao et al., “A Multi-stage Sparse Coding Framework to Explore the Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure,” in Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2016: 19th International Conference, Athens, Greece, October 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, S. Ourselin, L. Joskowicz, M. R. Sabuncu, G. Unal, and W. Wells, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 28–36.

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/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “11 Science Facts That Will Make You Feel Uneasy,” 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, “Telecommunications: Impact of Sports Programming Costs on Cable Television Rates,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-99-136, Jun. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. P. Eggleston, “An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2014.

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]

STEVEN LEE MYERS; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting from Beslan for this article and S. K. F. Melikhovo, “PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA FACES FULL ‘WAR’ TO DIVIDE NATION,” New York Times, p. 11, Sep. 05, 2004.

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/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Abbreviation	IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform.
ISSN (print)	1545-5963
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics Applied Mathematics