How to format your references using the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 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]

R. F. Service, “NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY: Element 107 Leaves the Table Unturned,” Science, vol. 289, no. 5483, p. 1270, Aug. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Rolett and J. Diamond, “Environmental predictors of pre-European deforestation on Pacific islands,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7007, pp. 443–446, Sep. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Farihi, B. T. Gänsicke, and D. Koester, “Evidence for water in the rocky debris of a disrupted extrasolar minor planet,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6155, pp. 218–220, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-C. Billeter, J. Atallah, J. J. Krupp, J. G. Millar, and J. D. Levine, “Specialized cells tag sexual and species identity in Drosophila melanogaster,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7266, pp. 987–991, 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. Anderson, TKO Management! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

[1]

W. Faber and D. Lembo, Eds., Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: 7th International Conference, RR 2013, Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013. Proceedings, vol. 7994. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7994. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. T. Paul, A. Dennis, and G. George, “A Review of Remote Sensing Techniques for the Visualization of Mangroves, Reefs, Fishing Grounds, and Molluscan Settling Areas in Tropical Waters,” in Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves: Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments, C. W. Finkl and C. Makowski, Eds., in Coastal Research Library. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 105–123.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “New Primate Fossils Reveal How Climate Change Assured The Rise Of Humanity,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-primate-fossils-reveal-how-climate-change-assured-rise-humanity/

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, “Multiyear Authorizations for Research and Development,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PAD-81-61, Jun. 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Bain Butler, “How L2 legal writers use strategies for scholarly writing: A mixed methods study,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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]

K. Kelly, “James Staley’s Series of Unfortunate Events,” New York Times, p. BU1, Aug. 26, 2017.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1545-598X
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Electrical and Electronic Engineering