How to format your references using the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 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]

P. M. Sander, “Paleontology. Reproduction in early amniotes,” Science, vol. 337, no. 6096, pp. 806–808, Aug. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Li and Z.-X. Luo, “A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features,” Nature, vol. 439, no. 7073, pp. 195–200, Jan. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. P. Dubal, R. Holze, and P. Gomez-Romero, “Development of hybrid materials based on sponge supported reduced graphene oxide and transition metal hydroxides for hybrid energy storage devices,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7349, Dec. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Iwashita, G. M. Kruger, R. Pardal, M. J. Kiel, and S. J. Morrison, “Hirschsprung disease is linked to defects in neural crest stem cell function,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5635, pp. 972–976, Aug. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Bullock, Wireshark® for Security Professionals. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

[1]

J. A. Eichmeier and M. K. Thumm, Eds., Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. MacPhail, “Becoming a Teacher Educator: Legitimate Participation and the Reflexivity of Being Situated,” in Self-Study in Physical Education Teacher Education: Exploring the interplay of practice and scholarship, A. Ovens and T. Fletcher, Eds., in Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 47–62.

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 Computer Graphics and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Meet The Next Generation of Waste-Free Food Packaging,” IFLScience, Sep. 09, 2014.

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, “Student Loan Marketing Association’s Loan Consolidation Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 121459, May 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Singh, “Improving the Usability of Typometric Solutions,” 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]

B. Rothenberg, “A Rested Williams Shakes Off the Rust,” New York Times, p. B11, Jan. 03, 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 Computer Graphics and Applications
Abbreviation	IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl.
ISSN (print)	0272-1716
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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