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]

S. Webb, “Science careers. Covering the planet with solar panels,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5813, p. 869, Feb. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. W. Mahowald and C. H. Schenck, “Insights from studying human sleep disorders,” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7063, pp. 1279–1285, Oct. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Gembris, J. G. Taylor, and D. Suter, “Trends and random fluctuations in athletics,” Nature, vol. 417, no. 6888, p. 506, May 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. J. F. Loos, I. Barroso, S. O’rahilly, and N. J. Wareham, “Comment on ‘A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity,’” Science, vol. 315, no. 5809, pp. 187; author reply 187, Jan. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Tan, Artificial Immune System Applications in Computersecurity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G. Giglioni, J. A. T. Lancaster, S. Corneanu, and D. Jalobeanu, Eds., Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, vol. 218. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Zhou and J. L. Platt, “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Fusion,” in Cell Fusion in Health and Disease, T. Dittmar and K. S. Zänker, Eds. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 33–64.

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]

R. Andrews, “A Solar Storm Put A Crack In Earth’s Magnetic Field,” IFLScience, Nov. 04, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-storm-crack-earths-magnetic-field/ (accessed Oct. 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, “Information Security: Weak Controls Place DC Highway Trust Fund and Other Data at Risk,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-01-155, Jan. 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Saha, “Application hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable computing systems,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2008.

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. Koblin, “Netflix, With Money to Burn, Draws the Ire of Spurned TV Executives,” New York Times, p. B4, Jun. 13, 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]–[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

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