How to format your references using the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 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]

N. P. Jacob, “IBI* series winner. Investigating Arabia Mountain: a molecular approach,” Science, vol. 335, no. 6076, pp. 1588–1589, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Fender and T. Belloni, “Stellar-mass black holes and ultraluminous x-ray sources,” Science, vol. 337, no. 6094, pp. 540–544, Aug. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Lim, R. Metzler, and Y. Bar-Yam, “Global pattern formation and ethnic/cultural violence,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5844, pp. 1540–1544, Sep. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Shin et al., “A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6874, p. 859, Feb. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Nappi and V. Peskov, Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H. Hagen, S. Guhathakurta, and G. Steinebach, Eds., Visualizing Sustainable Planning. in X.media.publishing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Terrazas and N. Krasnogor, “Genotype-Fitness Correlation Analysis for Evolutionary Design of Self-assembly Wang Tiles,” in Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2011), D. A. Pelta, N. Krasnogor, D. Dumitrescu, C. Chira, and R. Lung, Eds., in Studies in Computational Intelligence. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 73–84.

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 on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Chimpanzees Found To Recognize Butts In The Same Way They Recognize Faces,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimpanzees-found-to-recognize-butts-in-the-same-way-they-recognize-faces/

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, “Student Achievement: Schools Use Multiple Strategies to Help Students Meet Academic Standards, Especially Schools with Higher Proportions of Low-Income and Minority Students,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-18, Nov. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Andrews, “Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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, “Team of 7 From Finance and Law to Oversee Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Affairs,” New York Times, p. B3, Sep. 01, 2016.

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 on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Top. Circuits Syst.
ISSN (print)	2156-3357
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering