How to format your references using the IEEE Access citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Access. 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. C. Reed, “Cancer. Priming cancer cells for death,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6059, pp. 1075–1076, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Krupovic and E. V. Koonin, “Evolution of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses of the Bidnaviridae family from genes of four other groups of widely different viruses,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5347, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. M. Glazier, J. H. Nadeau, and T. J. Aitman, “Finding genes that underlie complex traits,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5602, pp. 2345–2349, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. E. Karnoub et al., “Mesenchymal stem cells within tumour stroma promote breast cancer metastasis,” Nature, vol. 449, no. 7162, pp. 557–563, Oct. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.-E. Choi and J. H. Han, How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bjorner, Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups, vol. 231. in Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 231. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Valsiner, “The Purpose of Purpose,” in Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities, G. Marsico, Ed., in Cultural Psychology of Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 79–85.

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 IEEE Access.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Robot Hitchhiker Will Make Its Way Across The U.S. This Summer,” IFLScience, Jul. 26, 2015.

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, “Comparison of States’ Highway Construction Costs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-113R, Nov. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Dunbar, “Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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]

J. Eligon, “Violence in Milwaukee Was No Shock to Some,” New York Times, p. A14, Aug. 15, 2016.

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	IEEE Access
Abbreviation	IEEE Access
ISSN (print)	2169-3536
Scope	General Computer Science General Engineering General Materials Science

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