How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 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. Bizzarro, “Planetary science. Probing the solar system’s prenatal history,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6197, pp. 620–621, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Czakó and J. M. Bowman, “Dynamics of the reaction of methane with chlorine atom on an accurate potential energy surface,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6054, pp. 343–346, Oct. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. J. Horsewill, N. H. Jones, and R. Caciuffo, “Evidence for coherent proton tunneling in a hydrogen bond network,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5501, pp. 100–103, Jan. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. M. Süel, R. P. Kulkarni, J. Dworkin, J. Garcia-Ojalvo, and M. B. Elowitz, “Tunability and noise dependence in differentiation dynamics,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5819, pp. 1716–1719, Mar. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Eklund, R. B. Marks, S. Ponnuswamy, K. L. Stanwood, and N. J. M. van Waes, WirelessMAN®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

G. A. Tsihrintzis, M. Virvou, and L. C. Jain, Eds., Intelligent Computing Systems: Emerging Application Areas, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 627. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 627. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Delepoulle, C. Renaud, and M. Chelle, “Improving Light Position in a Growth Chamber through the Use of a Genetic Algorithm,” in Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics, D. Plemenos and G. Miaoulis, Eds., in Studies in Computational Intelligence. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 67–82.

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 Signal Processing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Is This 12-Year-Old Girl Really Smarter Than Einstein?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/did-12-year-old-girl-really-achieve-higher-iq-einstein/

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, “Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-00-104, Mar. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Batson, “Head Start and at -risk students: Perceptions of administrators, practitioners, and parents,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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]

S. Hodara, “At Hopper’s Home, Legally This Time,” New York Times, p. NJ9, Dec. 01, 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 Signal Processing
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.
ISSN (print)	1932-4553
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering