How to format your references using the IEEE Communications Magazine citation style

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

B. Maureille, “A lost Neanderthal neonate found,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6902, pp. 33–34, Sep. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Zuniga and R. Zeller, “Development. In Turing’s hands--the making of digits,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6196, pp. 516–517, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Volkov, J. R. Banavar, and A. Maritan, “Comment on ‘Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil,’” Science, vol. 313, no. 5789, pp. 918; author reply 918, Aug. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Kartal et al., “Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation,” Nature, vol. 479, no. 7371, pp. 127–130, Oct. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Cheng, A. Lopez-Beltran, and D. G. Bostwick, Bladder Pathology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J. Reidy, N. Hacking, and B. McLucas, Eds., Radiological Interventions in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. in Medical Radiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. C. Jofré Luna, “The Mark of the Indian Still Inhabits Our Body: On Ethics and Disciplining in South American Archaeology,” in After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology, A. Haber and N. Shepherd, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2015, pp. 55–78.

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 Communications Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Amazing Footage Of Volcanic Eruption Shot From A Drone,” 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, “Army’s Contracting Out of Laundry and Educational Testing Services at Fort Carson, Colorado,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PLRD-82-66, Apr. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. S. Bowmar, “Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience in the United States, One Disaster at a Time: Fostering Green Building Principles through Disaster Assistance,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

L. Greenhouse, “Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line,” New York Times, p. SR5, Nov. 24, 2016.

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 Communications Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Commun. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0163-6804
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering