How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 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]

T. Clutton-Brock, “Sexual selection in males and females,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5858, pp. 1882–1885, Dec. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. J. Pennycook and S. V. Kalinin, “Microscopy: Hasten high resolution,” Nature, vol. 515, no. 7528, pp. 487–488, Nov. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Nilius, T. M. Wallis, and W. Ho, “Development of one-dimensional band structure in artificial gold chains,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5588, pp. 1853–1856, Sep. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Shi et al., “The evolutionary history of vertebrate RNA viruses,” Nature, vol. 556, no. 7700, pp. 197–202, Apr. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. A. Wolf, Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Surface Modification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Rousseau, Mathématiques et Technologie. in Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. D. Philip, Y. Gourhant, and D. Zeghlache, “OpenFlow as an Architecture for e-Node B Virtualization,” in e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, R. Popescu-Zeletin, K. Jonas, I. A. Rai, R. Glitho, and A. Villafiorita, Eds., in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 49–63.

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 II: Express Briefs.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “Scientists Have Managed To Probe The Icy Interior Of Ceres,” 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, “Space Station: Deteriorating Cost and Schedule Performance Under the Prime Contract,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-NSIAD-97-262, 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]

M. J. Garcia, “Teacher knowledge of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and effective classroom interventions,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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. K. (nyt), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: TV Journalist Suspended For Comment,” New York Times, p. A10, Dec. 09, 2004.

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 II: Express Briefs
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
ISSN (print)	1549-7747
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering