How to format your references using the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking citation style

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

C. Willyard, “Stem cells: bad seeds,” Nature, vol. 498, no. 7455, pp. S12-3, Jun. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. G. Ferreira and G. D. Starkman, “Einstein’s theory of gravity and the problem of missing mass,” Science, vol. 326, no. 5954, pp. 812–815, Nov. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Shiono, N. Matsugaki, and K. Takeda, “Phytochemistry: structure of the blue cornflower pigment,” Nature, vol. 436, no. 7052, p. 791, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Jacobsen et al., “Nano-scale hydrogen-bond network improves the durability of greener cements,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2667, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Jaffe, Flip the Funnel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Zecchin and G. Sinagra, Eds., The Arrhythmic Patient in the Emergency Department: A Practical Guide for Cardiologists and Emergency Physicians. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Clarke, “PIAs in Australia: A Work-In-Progress Report,” in Privacy Impact Assessment, D. Wright and P. D. Hert, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 119–148.

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 Networking.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “What The Bourne Films Get Right And Wrong About Amnesia,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-the-bourne-films-get-right-and-wrong-about-amnesia/

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, “Pipeline Safety Risk Assessment Program Could Help Evaluate Inspection Cycle,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-89-15, Mar. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. C. Pestano, “The Utilization of a Web-Based Internet Application to Improve Access and Efficiency of In-Home Care Services Provided by Personal Care Aides,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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]

K. Feeney, “QUICK BITE/Elizabeth; Warming Up to Sausage and Dogs,” New York Times, p. 14NJ13, Jul. 16, 2006.

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 Networking
Abbreviation	IEEE ACM Trans. Netw.
ISSN (print)	1063-6692
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering