How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 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]

A. E. Reines, “Astrophysics: Giant black hole in a stripped galaxy,” Nature, vol. 513, no. 7518, pp. 322–323, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Wang and E. I. Stiefel, “Toward separation and purification of olefins using dithiolene complexes: an electrochemical approach,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5501, pp. 106–109, Jan. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Shema, T. C. Sacktor, and Y. Dudai, “Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5840, pp. 951–953, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Becker et al., “Robust Salmonella metabolism limits possibilities for new antimicrobials,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7082, pp. 303–307, Mar. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Michaud, Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

[1]

B. Nilius, T. Gudermann, R. Jahn, R. Lill, O. H. Petersen, and P. P. de Tombe, Eds., Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, vol. 168. in Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, vol. 168. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. G. Kryazhev, V. S. Solodovnichenko, V. A. Drozdov, and V. A. Likholobov, “Carbon Adsorbents with Adjustable Porous Structure Formed in the Chemical Dehydro-Halogenation of Halogenated Polymers,” in Biodefence: Advanced Materials and Methods for Health Protection, S. Mikhalovsky and A. Khajibaev, Eds., in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 33–40.

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 Cloud Computing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Pope Francis Climate Advocate: Reframing The Debate,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pope-francis-climate-advocate-reframing-debate/

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, “Heroin Hotline,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-176833, Sep. 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. J. Stanford, “Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2008.

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: Ukraine: President Signs Land Reform Law,” New York Times, p. A8, Nov. 14, 2001.

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 Cloud Computing
ISSN (print)	2168-7161
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software