How to format your references using the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 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]

I. Artsimovitch, “Molecular biology: The tug of DNA repair,” Nature, vol. 505, no. 7483, pp. 298–299, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Ambraseys and R. Bilham, “Corruption kills,” Nature, vol. 469, no. 7329, pp. 153–155, Jan. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. GrandPré, S. Li, and S. M. Strittmatter, “Nogo-66 receptor antagonist peptide promotes axonal regeneration,” Nature, vol. 417, no. 6888, pp. 547–551, May 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Xie, X.-F. Shan, K. Shang, H. Xu, J. He, and Z.-G. Cai, “Relevance of LIG4 gene polymorphisms with cancer susceptibility: evidence from a meta-analysis,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6630, Oct. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Szpankowski, Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.

An edited book

[1]

M. Keuchel, F. Hagenmüller, and H. Tajiri, Eds., Video Capsule Endoscopy: A Reference Guide and Atlas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. D. Smart, “Writing Code in the Field: Implications for Robot Software Development,” in Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, D. Brugali, Ed., in Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 93–105.

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/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “NASA Reveals Proposal To Launch Europa Lander In 2024 And Search For Life,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-proposal-to-launch-europa-lander-in-2024-and-search-for-life/

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, “Commercial Space: Industry Developments and FAA Challenges,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-765T, Jun. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Zhao, “Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 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]

L. Saslow, “Brentwood Sets a Dress Code Into Motion,” New York Times, p. 14LI3, Oct. 09, 2005.

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	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Abbreviation	IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform.
ISSN (print)	1545-5963
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics Applied Mathematics