How to format your references using the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine citation style

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

L. Bengtsson, “Weather. Hurricane threats,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5529, pp. 440–441, Jul. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. K. Bruick and S. L. McKnight, “Transcription. Oxygen sensing gets a second wind,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5556, pp. 807–808, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. W. Green 2nd, W.-P. Chen, and M. R. Brudzinski, “Seismic evidence of negligible water carried below 400-km depth in subducting lithosphere,” Nature, vol. 467, no. 7317, pp. 828–831, Oct. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Kimoto, S. Haga, K. Sato, and K. Touhara, “Sex-specific peptides from exocrine glands stimulate mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons,” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7060, pp. 898–901, Oct. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Thompson, J. D. Hogan, and P. M. Clark, Developmental Psychology in Historical Perspective. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

I. Hamm, H. Seitz, and M. Werding, Eds., Demographic Change in Germany: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Creath, “(Anti-)Metaphysics in the Thirties And Why Should Anyone Care Now?,” in European Philosophy of Science – Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage, M. C. Galavotti, E. Nemeth, and F. Stadler, Eds., in Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 67–76.

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 Circuits and Systems Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, “It Seriously Sucks To Be A Reindeer Right Now,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/it-seriously-sucks-to-be-a-reindeer-right-now/

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, “Aviation Security: Slow Progress in Addressing Long-Standing Screener Performance Problems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-00-125, Mar. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Sharma, “Functional Characterization of Na+/Ca2+ Exchangers in Caenorhabditis elegans,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2017.

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]

F. Dudiyeva and as Told to, “Three Days and Forever,” New York Times, p. 662, Aug. 21, 2005.

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 Circuits and Systems Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Circuits Syst. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1531-636X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering