How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure 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]

B. Eckhardt, “Applied physics. A critical point for turbulence,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6039, pp. 165–166, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. W. Kirchner and A. Weil, “Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6774, pp. 177–180, Mar. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. D. Foote, R. W. Osborne, and A. R. Hoelzel, “Environment: whale-call response to masking boat noise,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6986, p. 910, Apr. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Llano et al., “An essential role for LEDGF/p75 in HIV integration,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5798, pp. 461–464, Oct. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Paoluzzi, V. Pascucci, M. Vicentino, C. Baldazzi, and S. Portuesi, Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R. Trappl, Ed., A Construction Manual for Robots’ Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Implementations, 1st ed. 2015. in Cognitive Technologies. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. J. Antsaklis and A. N. Michel, “Stability,” in A Linear Systems Primer, A. N. Michel, Ed., Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 2007, pp. 141–194.

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 Dependable and Secure Computing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “What Causes Necrotising Fasciitis, The Flesh-Eating Bug?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-causes-necrotising-fasciitis-flesh-eating-bug/

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, “Vocational Education: Status in School Year 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change at Secondary Level,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-93-71, Jul. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. R. Vargas, “Implementing modern geographic technology in the trucking industry: A case study,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

G. Johnson, “Cancer, Scourge of Affluent Nations,” New York Times, p. D3, Dec. 18, 2015.

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 Dependable and Secure Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Dependable Secure Comput.
ISSN (print)	1545-5971
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering