How to format your references using the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. 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]

D. R. Begun, “Anthropology. The earliest hominins--is less more?,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5663, pp. 1478–1480, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. M. Wray and S. R. Bishop, “Cascades on a stochastic pulse-coupled network,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6355, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. A. Philips, E. J. Rubin, and N. Perrimon, “Drosophila RNAi screen reveals CD36 family member required for mycobacterial infection,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5738, pp. 1251–1253, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Cristescu et al., “Pan-tumor genomic biomarkers for PD-1 checkpoint blockade-based immunotherapy,” Science, vol. 362, no. 6411, Oct. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Kushner, V. Lawrence, and S. Kumar, Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. U. Khan and A. Y. Zomaya, Eds., Handbook on Data Centers. New York, NY: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Hemsley-Brown and I. Oplatka, “Organisational Factors Influencing Higher Education Consumer Choice,” in Higher Education Consumer Choice, I. Oplatka, Ed., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 94–117.

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 Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Pig-Like ‘Bacon Turtle’ Swam The Ancient Waterways Of Utah,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-bacon-turtle-lived-ancient-waterways-utah/

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, “DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-95-149, Sep. 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. F. Crozier, “A qualitative study of teacher job satisfaction in an evolutionary and mandated change environment,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

A. Franaszek, “Why Czeslaw Milosz still matters,” New York Times, p. 0, May 15, 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 Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0885-8985
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Aerospace Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering