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

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

I. Bloch, “Quantum coherence and entanglement with ultracold atoms in optical lattices,” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7198, pp. 1016–1022, Jun. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Brochier and H. Philippe, “Phylogeny: a non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for bacteria,” Nature, vol. 417, no. 6886, p. 244, May 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. T. Parr, C. Economou, and S. B. Herzon, “A concise synthesis of (+)-batzelladine B from simple pyrrole-based starting materials,” Nature, vol. 525, no. 7570, pp. 507–510, Sep. 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. F. Chibotaru, A. Ceulemans, V. Bruyndoncx, and V. V. Moshchalkov, “Symmetry-induced formation of antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6814, pp. 833–835, 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]

J. Nedoma, J. Stehlík, I. Hlaváček, J. Daněk, T. Dostálová, and P. Přečková, Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

W. Ostachowicz, M. McGugan, J.-U. Schröder-Hinrichs, and M. Luczak, Eds., MARE-WINT: New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbine Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Brisson, B. Magerko, and A. Paiva, “Tilt Riders: Improvisational Agents Who Know What the Scene Is about,” in Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, H. H. Vilhjálmsson, S. Kopp, S. Marsella, and K. R. Thórisson, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 35–41.

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 Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Bizarre Plant Resembles Human Finger,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-plant-gives-police-finger/

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, “Bilingual Education: A Necessity That Has Not Been Satisfied,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-76-25, Aug. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. M. Emale, “An examination of how conglomerates impact small-medium enterprises in their relationship,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

J. Hodgman, “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman,” New York Times, p. MM20, Aug. 18, 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 Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag.
ISSN (print)	2168-6831
Scope	General Computer Science General Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation