How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 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. Watson, “EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: Getting More Out of Space,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5495, p. 1287b, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. E. Raymo and P. Huybers, “Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages,” Nature, vol. 451, no. 7176, pp. 284–285, Jan. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Dieterich, V. Cayol, and P. Okubo, “The use of earthquake rate changes as a stress meter at Kilauea volcano,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6811, pp. 457–460, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. C. Ghani, N. M. Ferguson, C. A. Donnelly, and R. M. Anderson, “Predicted vCJD mortality in Great Britain,” Nature, vol. 406, no. 6796, pp. 583–584, Aug. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Langlois, Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

T. Bouganis and O. Venjakob, Eds., Iwasawa Theory 2012: State of the Art and Recent Advances, vol. 7. in Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol. 7. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Wong, K. Leung, R. Kwan, and P. Tsang, “E-Learning: Developing a Simple Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System Using Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment and Adaptive Testing Technology,” in Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings, P. Tsang, S. K. S. Cheung, V. S. K. Lee, and R. Huang, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 23–34.

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 Electron Devices.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “SpaceX Will Launch A Groundbreaking MRSA Experiment To The ISS Next Week,” 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, “Issues Related to FAA’s Effectiveness,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-89-39, May 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. M. Dooling, “Like A Unicorn in Captivity,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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. Vecsey, “Walking Tentatively In Protesters’ Shoes,” New York Times, p. D1, May 08, 2010.

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 Electron Devices
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Electron Devices
ISSN (print)	0018-9383
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials