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]

P. Smaglik, “Building Nordic networks,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6916 Suppl, pp. A3, A5, A7, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. L. Bullock and D. Ish-Horowicz, “Conserved signals and machinery for RNA transport in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis,” Nature, vol. 414, no. 6864, pp. 611–616, Dec. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. L. Briggman, H. D. I. Abarbanel, and W. B. Kristan Jr, “Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5711, pp. 896–901, Feb. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. R. McConnell, J. Emery, Y. Eshed, N. Bao, J. Bowman, and M. K. Barton, “Role of PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA in determining radial patterning in shoots,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6838, pp. 709–713, Jun. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. C. Das, Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. Iliadis, H. Papadopoulos, and C. Jayne, Eds., Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 14th International Conference, EANN 2013, Halkidiki, Greece, September 13-16, 2013 Proceedings, Part I, vol. 383. in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 383. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.-D. Fournier, P. Mercier, and P.-H. Roche, “Surgical anatomy of the petrous apex and petroclival region,” in Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, J. D. Pickard, N. Akalan, C. D. Rocco, V. V. Dolenc, J. L. Antunes, J. J. A. Mooij, J. Schramm, and M. Sindou, Eds., in Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. , Vienna: Springer, 2007, pp. 91–146.

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]

E. Andrew, “5 Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/5-ways-social-media-changing-your-brain/

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, “Support Service Contracting at Johnson Space Center Needs Strengthening,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PSAD-81-2, Oct. 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Mycroft, “Minorities in leadership and financial performance of their Fortune 500 companies,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2012.

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]

K. Feeney, “Sublime Indian Sweets,” New York Times, p. NJ9, Jan. 14, 2007.

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