How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 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]

H. Gee, “Progressive evolution: aspirational thinking,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6916, p. 611, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Xu and H. Chen, “Logarithm conformal mapping brings the cloaking effect,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6862, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Lu, W.-H. Li, and C.-I. Wu, “Comment on ‘Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence-accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes,’” Science, vol. 302, no. 5647, pp. 988; author reply 988, Nov. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Wu et al., “Development of a general method for detection and quantification of the P35S promoter based on assessment of existing methods,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7358, Dec. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Snape, Ancient Egyptian Tombs. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Persson and J. Stirna, Eds., Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2015 International Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Proceedings, vol. 215. in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 215. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Xu and A. J. Hickey, “The Physics of Aerosol Droplet and Particle Generation from Inhalers,” in Controlled Pulmonary Drug Delivery, H. D. C. Smyth and A. J. Hickey, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2011, pp. 75–100.

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 Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “The Unknown Crocodiles,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-unknown-crocodiles/

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, “Child Support Enforcement: Leadership Essential to Implementing Effective Automated Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-AIMD-97-162, Sep. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Narang, “Use of technology to reduce the occurrence of medication errors in a U.S. hospital: A project report,” 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]

G. G. Gustines, “Restarting Comics’ Clock Is Issue No. 1,” New York Times, p. C1, Jun. 13, 2011.

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 Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
ISSN (print)	1051-8215
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology