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]

B. J. Arena, “Outside my comfort zone,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6198, p. 842, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Pohrt and V. L. Popov, “Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3293, Nov. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. C. Davis, R. D. Dahn, and N. H. Shubin, “An autopodial-like pattern of Hox expression in the fins of a basal actinopterygian fish,” Nature, vol. 447, no. 7143, pp. 473–476, May 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-H. Lin, M. V. Milošević, L. Covaci, B. Jankó, and F. M. Peeters, “Quantum rotor in nanostructured superconductors,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4542, Apr. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. K. Jain, H. C. Triandis, and C. W. Weick, Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. R. Roth-Berghofer, S. Schulz, and D. B. Leake, Eds., Modeling and Retrieval of Context: Second International Workshop, MRC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 31–August 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 3946. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3946. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Ogiela, “Pattern Classifications in Cognitive Informatics,” in Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Advanced Pattern Classification, M. R. Ogiela and L. C. Jain, Eds., in Studies in Computational Intelligence. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 39–57.

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 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “This Device Eats Polluted Air And Spits Out Power,” IFLScience.

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, “Error in the Pell Grant Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 127278, Jun. 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. M. Martinez, “The influence of formal and informal support on the quality of life of individuals with a severe mental illness,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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 and V. Mather, “Mayweather Overcomes McGregor in the 10th Round,” New York Times, p. SP11, Aug. 26, 2017.

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