How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation citation style

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

W. L. Jorgensen, “The many roles of computation in drug discovery,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5665, pp. 1813–1818, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Mesterton-Gibbons and E. S. Adams, “Behavioral ecology. The economics of animal cooperation,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5601, pp. 2146–2147, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. J. Beerling, C. P. Osborne, and W. G. Chaloner, “Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6826, pp. 352–354, Mar. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. C. Tzedakis, K. A. Hughen, I. Cacho, and K. Harvati, “Placing late Neanderthals in a climatic context,” Nature, vol. 449, no. 7159, pp. 206–208, Sep. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Shinohara and N. Tagmatarchis, Endohedral Metallofullerenes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

A. J. M. Boulton, Managing Neuropathic Pain in the Diabetic Patient, Second Edition. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. T. Dempsey, W. Wang, and X. Zhuang, “Fluorescence Imaging at Sub-Diffraction-Limit Resolution with Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy,” in Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics, P. Hinterdorfer and A. Oijen, Eds., New York, NY: Springer US, 2009, pp. 95–127.

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 Evolutionary Computation.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “Secrets Of How Earth’s Aurorae Are Produced Revealed By NASA Spacecraft,” 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, “School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-563, Aug. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. O. Igualada, “The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study,” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2015.

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. Wagner, “Ties to Miami and to Cuba Run Deep in Marlins Bidder,” New York Times, p. D1, Jul. 21, 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 Evolutionary Computation
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1089-778X
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Software Theoretical Computer Science