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]

Qi X-L. Physics. Symmetry meets topology. Science 2012;338:1550–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gomez Perdiguero E, Geissmann F. Cancer immunology. Identifying the infiltrators. Science 2014;344:801–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nederbragt AJ, van Loon AE, Dictus WJAG. Evolutionary biology: hedgehog crosses the snail’s midline. Nature 2002;417:811–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Daulton TL, Bernatowicz TJ, Lewis RS, Messenger S, Stadermann FJ, Amari S. Polytype distribution in circumstellar silicon carbide. Science 2002;296:1852–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cheremisinoff NP, Davletshin A. A Guide to Safe Material and Chemical Handling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Vaduva S. Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pereira D, Oliveira E, Moreira N. Formal Modelling of Emotions in BDI Agents. In: Sadri F, Satoh K, editors. Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 8th International Workshop, CLIMA VIII, Porto, Portugal, September 10-11, 2007. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 62–81.

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]

Andrew E. Marine Plankton Found On Surface Of International Space Station. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/marine-plankton-found-surface-international-space-station/ (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. Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2007 Expenditure Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bacus M. Disturb the Morning. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]

Grynbaum MM. Fox Trades Motto of ‘Fair and Balanced’ for ‘Most Watched, Most Trusted.’ New York Times 2017:B8.

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