How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D. Schimel, “Ecology. Climate change and crop yields: beyond Cassandra,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5782, pp. 1889–1890, Jun. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Takano and M. Ukezono, “An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6652, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.-Q. Guo, M. Okamoto, and N. M. Crawford, “Identification of a plant nitric oxide synthase gene involved in hormonal signaling,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5642, pp. 100–103, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Wang, G. Sheng, S. Juranek, T. Tuschl, and D. J. Patel, “Structure of the guide-strand-containing argonaute silencing complex,” Nature, vol. 456, no. 7219, pp. 209–213, Nov. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Briffaut, E-Enabled Operations Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D. Husemöller, Basic Bundle Theory and K-Cohomology Invariants: With contributions by Siegfried Echterhoff, Stefan Fredenhagen and Bernhard Krötz, vol. 726. in Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 726. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Minami, “The Aarhus Convention and Cases of Non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment Requirements: The EU and Japan,” in Contemporary Issues in Environmental Law: The EU and Japan, Y. Nakanishi, Ed., in Environmental Protection in the European Union. , Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2016, pp. 47–61.

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 Information Forensics and Security.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Octopus That Walks On Land,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopus-walks-land/

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, “Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Fully Implement Major Initiatives to Save Billions of Dollars,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-13-297T, Jan. 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Belic, “Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2005.

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. M. Nir, “For Family Reeling From Death in Times Square Crash, ‘Nothing Is Safe Anymore,’” New York Times, p. A21, May 19, 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 Information Forensics and Security
ISSN (print)	1556-6013
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality