How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 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. Sarewitz, “World view: Politicize me,” Nature, vol. 467, no. 7311, p. 26, Sep. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Gebbers and V. I. Adamchuk, “Precision agriculture and food security,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5967, pp. 828–831, Feb. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. T. Petsch, T. I. Eglington, and K. J. Edwards, “14C-dead living biomass: evidence for microbial assimilation of ancient organic carbon during shale weathering,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5519, pp. 1127–1131, May 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Wang, M. C. González, C. A. Hidalgo, and A.-L. Barabási, “Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phone viruses,” Science, vol. 324, no. 5930, pp. 1071–1076, May 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. B. Rodman, Why Cultural Studies? Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. Jain, A. P. Sinha, and P. Vitharana, Eds., Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research: 6th International Conference, DESRIST 2011, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 5-6, 2011. Proceedings, vol. 6629. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6629. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Caserio, D. Panaro, and S. Trucco, “Management Discussion and Analysis in the US Financial Companies: A Data Mining Analysis,” in Strengthening Information and Control Systems: The Synergy Between Information Technology and Accounting Models, D. Mancini, R. P. Dameri, and E. Bonollo, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 43–57.

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 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “This Simulation Shows How Magnetic Fields Shape The Jets Of Supermassive Black Holes,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-simulation-shows-how-magnetic-fields-shape-the-jets-of-supermassive-black-holes/

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, “Improved Use of Cargo Space on Ammunition Ships by BetterPlanning,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-133025, Mar. 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. R. Peterson, “Subspecies composition, genetic variation and structure of Largemouth Bass in Puerto Rico reservoirs,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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]

B. Brantley, “An Embrace on a Grim Day,” New York Times, p. C1, Mar. 13, 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 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control
ISSN (print)	0885-3010
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Acoustics and Ultrasonics Instrumentation