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]

Radford T. Of course scientists can communicate. Nature 2011;469:445.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Didenko YT, Suslick KS. The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation. Nature 2002;418:394–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee I-H, Shin S, Choi T-L. Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 2015;347:1310–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Garabato ACN, Polzin KL, King BA, Heywood KJ, Visbeck M. Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean. Science 2004;303:210–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abid MM. Spacecraft Sensors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Golnaraghi M, editor. Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles. 1st ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bamias G, Pizarro T, Cominelli F. New Paradigms in the Pathogenesis of IBD. In: Cohen RD, editor. Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011, p. 41–57.

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]

Luntz S. Endangered Turtle Gets Prosthetic Fin. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-turtle-gets-prosthetic-fin/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Partnerships Needed to Address Risk of Major Disruptions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spisak GM. Particulation. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Vecsey G. Even After Prison And an Ankle Injury, Burress Says He’s Ready. New York Times 2011:B13.

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