How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology citation style

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

J. Couzin, “Social science. Friendship as a health factor,” Science, vol. 323, no. 5913, pp. 454–457, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. L. Kiessling and M. B. Kraft, “Chemistry. A path to complex carbohydrates,” Science, vol. 341, no. 6144, pp. 357–358, Jul. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Kent, S. Massar, and J. Silman, “Secure and robust transmission and verification of unknown quantum states in Minkowski space,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3901, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. W. Han, B. R. Herrin, M. D. Cooper, and I. A. Wilson, “Antigen recognition by variable lymphocyte receptors,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5897, pp. 1834–1837, Sep. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Paterson and K. Tobias, Atlas of ear diseases of the dog and cat. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Z. A. Siddiqui, M. S. Akhtar, and K. Futai, Eds., Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Folino, A. Forestiero, and G. Spezzano, “Swarm-Based Distributed Clustering in Peer-to-Peer Systems,” in Artificial Evolution: 7th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2005, Lille, France, October 26-28, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, E.-G. Talbi, P. Liardet, P. Collet, E. Lutton, and M. Schoenauer, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, pp. 37–48.

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 Vehicular Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Beyond Dinosaurs, What Would We Need To Create A Jurassic World?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beyond-dinosaurs-what-would-we-need-create-jurassic-world/

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, “Higher Education: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Reporting on These Activities Could Be Enhanced,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-6, Dec. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Pathak, “The Role of the Protein Phosphatase 1 Inhibitor-1 In Regulation of Murine Cardiac Physiology and Progression of Cardiomyopathy,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.

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]

M. W. Walsh, “House Bill on Puerto Rico Debt Near Completion,” New York Times, p. B2, Apr. 09, 2016.

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 Vehicular Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0018-9545
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Aerospace Engineering Automotive Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering