How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 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. Dlakic, “Is CdtB a nuclease or a phosphatase?,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5504, p. 547, Jan. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Artursson and S. D. Knight, “Structural biology. Breaking the intestinal barrier to deliver drugs,” Science, vol. 347, no. 6223, pp. 716–717, Feb. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-B. Boulé, L. R. Vega, and V. A. Zakian, “The yeast Pif1p helicase removes telomerase from telomeric DNA,” Nature, vol. 438, no. 7064, pp. 57–61, Nov. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Morisset et al., “High constitutive activity of native H3 receptors regulates histamine neurons in brain,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6814, pp. 860–864, Dec. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Linder, Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

[1]

W. G. Weber, M. Thoma, A. Ostendorf, and L. Chisholm, Eds., Democratic Competences and Social Practices in Organizations. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Jespers and J. Okniński, “Algebras of submonoids of polycyclic-by-finite groups,” in Noetherian Semigroup Algebras, J. Okniński, Ed., in Algebra and Applications. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007, pp. 63–115.

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 I: Regular Papers.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “Scientists Have Found Something Very Mysterious In The Great Pyramid Of Giza,” IFLScience.

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, “Alternative to Project Seafarer,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, LCD-77-360, Oct. 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Thompson, “Assessing the determinants of information technology adoption in Jamaica’s public sector using the technology acceptance model,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 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]

J. Kanter, “Split, Then Talk Trade, Europe Tells the British,” New York Times, p. A8, Mar. 31, 2017.

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 I: Regular Papers
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
ISSN (print)	1549-8328
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering