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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Circuits and 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]

C. A. Bertrand, “Tech.Sight. Color by number: imaging large data,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5533, pp. 1335–1336, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. O. Scully and M. S. Zubairy, “Physics. Playing tricks with slow light,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5630, pp. 181–182, Jul. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. N. Cartwright, J. A. Humphries, and L. G. Smith, “PAN1: a receptor-like protein that promotes polarization of an asymmetric cell division in maize,” Science, vol. 323, no. 5914, pp. 649–651, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. L. Chase-Lansdale et al., “Mothers’ transitions from welfare to work and the well-being of preschoolers and adolescents,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5612, pp. 1548–1552, Mar. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. P. Pohanish, HazMat Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

D. Flandre, A. N. Nazarov, and P. L. F. Hemment, Eds., Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment Kiev, Ukraine 26–30 April 2004, vol. 185. in NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol. 185. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Perfilieva, “A New Model of a Fuzzy Associative Memory,” in Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making: 4th International Symposium, IUKM 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam, October 15-17, 2015, Proceedings, V.-N. Huynh, M. Inuiguchi, and T. Demoeux, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 32–42.

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 Circuits and Systems Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Study Sheds Light On Violent Asteroid Crash That Caused Mysterious ‘Crater Rings’ On The Moon,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/study-sheds-light-on-violent-asteroid-crash-that-caused-mysterious-crater-rings-on-the-moon/

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, “USDA: Information on Classical Plant and Animal Breeding Activities,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-1171R, Sep. 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Desgens-Martin, “High prevalence of carcinoma in California sea lions Zalophus californianus: Evidence of a xenobiotic-induced carcinogenic cascade?,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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]

M. Schwirtz, W. K. Rashbaum, and D. Hakim, “Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry,” New York Times, p. A1, Jul. 02, 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 Circuits and Systems Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Circuits Syst. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1531-636X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering