How to format your references using the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine citation style

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

A. Kotok, “Science careers. Business financing for your research,” Science, vol. 319, no. 5869, p. 1549, Mar. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Holowka and L. A. Petitto, “Left hemisphere cerebral specialization for babies while babbling,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5586, p. 1515, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Aguzzi, B. A. Barres, and M. L. Bennett, “Microglia: scapegoat, saboteur, or something else?,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6116, pp. 156–161, Jan. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. A. Alvarez et al., “Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain,” Science, vol. 361, no. 6398, pp. 186–188, Jul. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cauvin, F. Escobar, and A. Serradj, Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

O. Gervasi and M. L. Gavrilova, Eds., Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings. Part III, vol. 4707. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4707. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Ruan, Y. Li, H. Wang, and L. Zhao, “From Queriability to Informativity, Assessing ‘Quality in Use’ of DBpedia and YAGO,” in The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 -- June 2, 2016, Proceedings, H. Sack, E. Blomqvist, M. d’Aquin, C. Ghidini, S. P. Ponzetto, and C. Lange, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 52–68.

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 Consumer Electronics Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Recently-Discovered Wasp Species Named For Harry Potter Creature,” 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, “Surface Transportation: Availability of Intercity Bus Service Continues to Decline,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-92-126, Jun. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. S. Ramberg, “L’envers et l’endroit: The other side of the cloth,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2010.

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]

J. Koblin and M. M. Grynbaum, “Top Political Journalist Faces Multiple Claims of Harassment,” New York Times, p. B3, Oct. 26, 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 Consumer Electronics Magazine
ISSN (print)	2162-2248
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