How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management citation style

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

G. W. Dorn 2nd, “Medicine. Refugee receptors switch sides,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5973, pp. 1586–1587, Mar. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Mohd-Sarip and C. P. Verrijzer, “Molecular biology. A higher order of silence,” Science, vol. 306, no. 5701, pp. 1484–1485, Nov. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. P. Y. Ting, J. A. Duncan, and Y. Lei, “How the noninflammasome NLRs function in the innate immune system,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5963, pp. 286–290, Jan. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Puthalakath et al., “Bmf: a proapoptotic BH3-only protein regulated by interaction with the myosin V actin motor complex, activated by anoikis,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5536, pp. 1829–1832, Sep. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Olsson, Understanding Changing Telecommunications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

K. I. Bland, M. W. Büchler, A. Csendes, M. G. Sarr, O. J. Garden, and J. Wong, Eds., General Surgery. London: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Jia, Y. Chen, and P. Wu, “MENN Method Applications for Stock Market Forecasting,” in Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008: 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, Beijing, China, September 24-28, 2008, Proceedings, Part I, F. Sun, J. Zhang, Y. Tan, J. Cao, and W. Yu, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 30–39.

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 Network and Service Management.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, “Living In A City May Increase The Risk Of Psychosis In Children,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/urban-living-may-increase-risk-psychosis-among-children/

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, “Highway Safety: Safety Belt Use Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-92-106, May 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Ciolek, “A Mixed Method Study on the Missouri Beginning Teachers Assistance Program and Teacher Retention in Saint Louis School Districts,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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. Southard, “Nagasaki, the Forgotten City,” New York Times, p. A19, Aug. 08, 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 Network and Service Management
ISSN (print)	1932-4537
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering