How to format your references using the IEEE Communications Magazine citation style

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

M. Eisenstein, “Drug development: Holding out for reinforcements,” Nature, vol. 484, no. 7395, pp. S16-8, Apr. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Yoshida and J. Kanda, “Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima radionuclides,” Science, vol. 336, no. 6085, pp. 1115–1116, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. P. Rakitzis, A. J. van den Brom, and M. H. M. Janssen, “Directional dynamics in the photodissociation of oriented molecules,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5665, pp. 1852–1854, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. L. Brownell Jr, M. F. Tillman, G. N. di Sciara, P. Berggren, and A. J. Read, “Further scrutiny of scientific whaling,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5497, p. 1696a, Dec. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Ghez, A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

T. B. Pedersen, M. K. Mohania, and A. M. Tjoa, Eds., Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 11th International Conference, DaWaK 2009 Linz, Austria, August 31–September 2, 2009 Proceedings, vol. 5691. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5691. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Brinks and M. Busch, “Local Compensation for Respiratory Motion in List-mode PET,” in Advances in Medical Engineering, T. M. Buzug, D. Holz, J. Bongartz, M. Kohl-Bareis, U. Hartmann, and S. Weber, Eds., in Springer Proceedings in Physics. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 31–36.

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 Communications Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Scientists Closer To Bringing A Species Back From Extinction,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-closer-bringing-species-back-extinction/

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, “Examination Into Certain Contract Costs for the E-2C Aircraft Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-163058, Jul. 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. E. Barta, “Culture, customer-centricity, and customer relationship management in an online postsecondary learning institution,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2009.

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. Herrman and S. Maheshwari, “Facebook Overstated Video Views,” New York Times, p. B1, Sep. 24, 2016.

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 Communications Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Commun. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0163-6804
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering