How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 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]

G. Frazzetto, “Neuroscience: Powerful acts,” Nature, vol. 482, no. 7386, pp. 466–467, Feb. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. J. Morrison and J. Kimble, “Asymmetric and symmetric stem-cell divisions in development and cancer,” Nature, vol. 441, no. 7097, pp. 1068–1074, Jun. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Hirata, B. J. Klein, and K. S. Murakami, “The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea,” Nature, vol. 451, no. 7180, pp. 851–854, Feb. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Festenstein et al., “Modulation of heterochromatin protein 1 dynamics in primary Mammalian cells,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5607, pp. 719–721, Jan. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V. E. Borisenko and S. Ossicini, What is What in the Nanoworld. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

H. Cherifi, B. Gonçalves, R. Menezes, and R. Sinatra, Eds., Complex Networks VII: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2016, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 644. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 644. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Bobrowski and M. Kimmel, “Mathematical Tools,” in An Operator Semigroup in Mathematical Genetics, M. Kimmel, Ed., in SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, pp. 23–65.

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 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “The Speed Of Gravity Might Help Us Confirm Dark Energy,” 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, “Performance and Accountability: Transportation Challenges Facing Congress and the Department of Transportation,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-545T, Mar. 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. N. Harris, “Deadly force: Perceptions of police and exploration of strategies used by African American mothers to protect their sons,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

J. Wagner, “Dodgers, Mindful of Last Year’s Failure, Start Quickly Against Cubs,” New York Times, p. SP6, Oct. 15, 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 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.
ISSN (print)	2168-2194
Scope	Biotechnology Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Health Information Management