How to format your references using the IEEE Sensors Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Sensors Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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]

J. A. Kovacs, “Biochemistry. How iron activates O2,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5609, pp. 1024–1025, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Pasare and R. Medzhitov, “Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors,” Nature, vol. 438, no. 7066, pp. 364–368, Nov. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Abel, G. L. Bryan, and M. L. Norman, “The formation of the first star in the Universe,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5552, pp. 93–98, Jan. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Kondo, T. Wakayama, T. Naiki, K. Matsumoto, and K. Sugimoto, “Recruitment of Mec1 and Ddc1 checkpoint proteins to double-strand breaks through distinct mechanisms,” Science, vol. 294, no. 5543, pp. 867–870, Oct. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. D. Pederson, Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

P. Meesad, H. Unger, and S. Boonkrong, Eds., The 9th International Conference on Computing and InformationTechnology (IC2IT2013): 9th-10th May 2013 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, vol. 209. in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 209. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. C. Gonçalves, J. Pereira, and R. Jiménez-Peris, “An RDMA Middleware for Asynchronous Multi-stage Shuffling in Analytical Processing,” in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 16th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2016, Held as Part of the 11th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, M. Jelasity and E. Kalyvianaki, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 61–74.

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 Sensors Journal.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “Is Elon Musk Building An Iron Man Suit?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/is-elon-musk-building-an-iron-man-suit/

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, “Airport Improvement Program: Better Management Needed for Funds Provided Under Letters of Intent,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-94-100, Feb. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. M. Delaney, “A qualitative descriptive case study explaining professional development in community corrections,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2014.

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]

W. Hu, “New Bronx District Attorney Fixes Her Sights on Rikers Island Cases,” New York Times, p. A18, Mar. 05, 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 Sensors Journal
Abbreviation	IEEE Sens. J.
ISSN (print)	1530-437X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation