How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. B. Plotkin, “Cell biology. The lives of proteins,” Science, vol. 331, no. 6018, pp. 683–684, Feb. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O. Kilpivaara and L. A. Aaltonen, “Diagnostic cancer genome sequencing and the contribution of germline variants,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6127, pp. 1559–1562, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Ben-Ami Bartal, J. Decety, and P. Mason, “Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6061, pp. 1427–1430, Dec. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. D. Wilson et al., “Species-specific transcription in mice carrying human chromosome 21,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5900, pp. 434–438, Oct. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Basset, E. Blokhina, and D. Galayko, Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

T. Waltham, Sinkholes and Subsidence: Karst and Cavernous Rocks in Engineering and Construction. in Karst and Cavernous Rocks in Engineering and Const. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. M. ter Haar Romeny, “A Geometric Model for the Functional Circuits of the Visual Front-End,” in Brain-Inspired Computing: International Workshop, BrainComp 2013, Cetraro, Italy, July 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, L. Grandinetti, T. Lippert, and N. Petkov, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 35–50.

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 Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Astronomers To Peer Into A Black Hole For First Time With new Event Horizon Telescope,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-to-peer-into-a-black-hole-for-first-time-with-new-event-horizon-telescope/

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, “Food Assistance: Information on Meal Costs in the National School Lunch Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-94-32BR, Dec. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Cong, “A Comparative Analysis of Acculturative Stress Among Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese International Students at a Hispanic Serving University,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

D. Kelly, “Mother Fixation,” New York Times, p. 79, Aug. 13, 2000.

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	Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abbreviation	Can. J. Electr. Comput. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0840-8688
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Electrical and Electronic Engineering