How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 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. Friedman, “Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how biodiversity is spread across the vertebrate tree of life,” Nature, vol. 462, no. 7271, p. 255, Nov. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Brown and H. M. Jaeger, “Materials science. Through thick and thin,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6047, pp. 1230–1231, Sep. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. A. Wood, J. P. Grotzinger, and J. A. D. Dickson, “Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5577, pp. 2383–2386, Jun. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Balili, V. Hartwell, D. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West, “Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons in a trap,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5827, pp. 1007–1010, May 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Le Menn, Instrumentation and Metrology in Oceanography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Lin and X. Huang, Eds., Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part II, vol. 176. in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 176. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Yu.N. and A. V.a., “Hierarchical Scale-Free Representation of Biological Realm—Its Origin and Evolution,” in Biosphere Origin and Evolution, N. Dobretsov, N. Kolchanov, A. Rozanov, and G. Zavarzin, Eds., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008, pp. 69–88.

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 Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Why You Should Never Use Hand Sanitizer,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-stop-using-hand-sanitizer-immediately/

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, “Information Concerning the Arming of Commercial Pilots,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-02-822R, Jun. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. M. Yuknis, “A grounded theory of deaf middle school students’ revision of their own writing,” 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]

M. W. Walsh, “In Congress, a Bill Seeks to Tie Municipal Borrowing Power to Public Pension Disclosure,” New York Times, p. B4, Apr. 19, 2013.

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 Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	1939-1404
Scope	Atmospheric Science Computers in Earth Sciences