How to format your references using the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine citation style

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

F. Albarède, “Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7268, pp. 1227–1233, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Häkkinen and P. B. Rhines, “Decline of subpolar North Atlantic circulation during the 1990s,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5670, pp. 555–559, Apr. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. O. Andreae, C. D. Jones, and P. M. Cox, “Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7046, pp. 1187–1190, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. B. Thyme et al., “Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7268, pp. 1300–1304, Oct. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Reay, Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Fairweather, Ed., Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, vol. 366. in Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, vol. 366. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. N. Stampar, M. M. Maronna, M. V. Kitahara, J. D. Reimer, J. S. Beneti, and A. C. Morandini, “Ceriantharia in Current Systematics: Life Cycles, Morphology and Genetics,” in The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future: The world of Medusa and her sisters, S. Goffredo and Z. Dubinsky, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 61–72.

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 Consumer Electronics Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Marine Plankton Found On Surface Of International Space Station,” 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, “NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-634, Jul. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Roediger, “Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2015.

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. Gorman, “Nowhere to Run: Outside Refuges, Cheetahs Face Outsize Threats,” New York Times, p. D2, Dec. 30, 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 Consumer Electronics Magazine
ISSN (print)	2162-2248
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