How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory citation style

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

D. E. Moller, “New drug targets for type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome,” Nature, vol. 414, no. 6865, pp. 821–827, Dec. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Daubin and N. A. Moran, “Comment on ‘The origins of genome complexity,’” Science, vol. 306, no. 5698, pp. 978; author reply 978, Nov. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. M. Kohli, C. T. Walsh, and M. D. Burkart, “Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics,” Nature, vol. 418, no. 6898, pp. 658–661, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Bartels, F. Wang, D. Möller, E. Knoesel, and T. F. Heinz, “Real-space observation of molecular motion induced by femtosecond laser pulses,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5684, pp. 648–651, Jul. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Deacon, A. Derry, and D. Mirfendereski, Inflation-indexed Securities. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

D. K. Maheshwari, Ed., Bacterial Metabolites in Sustainable Agroecosystem, vol. 12. in Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol. 12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Rudolph-Cleff, “Urban Interplay,” in Urbanization and Locality: Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-Specific Planning and Design, F. Wang and M. Prominski, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2016, pp. 75–94.

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 Theory.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “Chicago Doctor Investigated For Giving Kids Vaccinations Made With Vodka And Cat Saliva,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chicago-doctor-investigated-for-giving-kids-vaccinations-made-with-vodka-and-cat-saliva/

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, “SSA’s Acceptance Testing of a Mass Storage System for Computerized Data Was Adequate,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-85-5, Mar. 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. D. Quick, “Faith-based charter school success at education ground zero,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2012.

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. Barron, “A Cathedral-Like Home For a Church’s Peacocks,” New York Times, p. A19, Oct. 08, 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 Theory
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
ISSN (print)	0018-9448
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Library and Information Sciences