How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing citation style

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

P. J. Armitage, “Astronomy. Stars in the making,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5892, pp. 1047–1048, Aug. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Van Roy and D. E. G. Briggs, “A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid,” Nature, vol. 473, no. 7348, pp. 510–513, May 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. A. Amodeo, M. J. Rudolph, and L. Tong, “Crystal structure of the heterotrimer core of Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homologue SNF1,” Nature, vol. 449, no. 7161, pp. 492–495, Sep. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. D. Hatfield, H. R. Shcherbata, K. A. Fischer, K. Nakahara, R. W. Carthew, and H. Ruohola-Baker, “Stem cell division is regulated by the microRNA pathway,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7044, pp. 974–978, Jun. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Ming, D. Glasser, D. Hildebrandt, B. Glasser, and M. Metzer, Attainable Region Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P. Schmüser, Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime: Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization, 2nd ed. 2014., vol. 258. in Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol. 258. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Zumitzavan and J. Michie, “Implications of Research Findings,” in Personal Knowledge Management, Leadership Styles, and Organisational Performance: A Case Study of the Healthcare Industry in Thailand, J. Michie, Ed., in SpringerBriefs in Business. , Singapore: Springer, 2015, pp. 49–52.

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 Services Computing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Brightest Pulsar Ever Discovered Is 10 Million Times More Luminous Than Our Sun,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/brightest-pulsar-ever-discovered-10-million-times-more-luminous-our-sun/

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 Trust Fund: Strategies for Safeguarding Highway Financing,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-92-245, Sep. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. L. Forlizzi, “Congruency of supervisor and counselor perceptions of actual and preferred counselor work behaviors,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

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]

B. Brantley, “Art’s but a Walking Shadow,” New York Times, p. C1, Jun. 20, 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 Services Computing
ISSN (print)	1939-1374
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems and Management