How to format your references using the Computers and Electrical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and Electrical 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	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 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]

Schmerr N. The Gutenberg discontinuity: melt at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. Science 2012;335:1480–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr. Emerging, evolving, and established infectious diseases and interventions. Science 2014;345:1292–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bieber FR, Brenner CH, Lazer D. Human genetics. Finding criminals through DNA of their relatives. Science 2006;312:1315–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Samad TA, Moore KA, Sapirstein A, Billet S, Allchorne A, Poole S, et al. Interleukin-1beta-mediated induction of Cox-2 in the CNS contributes to inflammatory pain hypersensitivity. Nature 2001;410:471–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wystup U. FX Options and Structured Products. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Goldberger JJ, Ng J, editors. Practical Signal and Image Processing in Clinical Cardiology. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Terrazas G, Krasnogor N. Genotype-Fitness Correlation Analysis for Evolutionary Design of Self-assembly Wang Tiles. In: Pelta DA, Krasnogor N, Dumitrescu D, Chira C, Lung R, editors. Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2011), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 73–84.

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 Computers and Electrical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Lab Experiment Accidentally Gave Students Caffeine Dose Equal To 300 Coffees. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lab-experiment-accidentally-gave-students-caffeine-dose-equal-to-300-coffees/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miranda PJ. Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Levy CJ, Kishkovsky S. Russian Strikes Back at BP’s Chairman, as Oil Dispute Flares Again. New York Times 2008:C3.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers and Electrical Engineering
Abbreviation	Comput. Electr. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0045-7906
Scope	General Computer Science Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering