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]

J. Oppenheim, “Physics. For quantum information, two wrongs can make a right,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5897, pp. 1783–1784, Sep. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Siomi and M. C. Siomi, “RNA. Phased piRNAs tackle transposons,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6236, pp. 756–757, May 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. A. Hansell, D. Kadko, and N. R. Bates, “Degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the western Arctic Ocean,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5672, pp. 858–861, May 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Sun, P. Song, Y. Zhang, C. Liu, W. Xu, and W. Xing, “A class of high performance metal-free oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on cheap carbon blacks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2505, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Michaud, Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. R. Katlic, Ed., Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Elderly: Evidence-Based Practice. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.-I. Hosoya and M. Tachikawa, “The Inner Blood-Retinal Barrier,” in Biology and Regulation of Blood-Tissue Barriers, C. Y. Cheng, Ed., in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. , New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 85–104.

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]

K. Hamilton, “2016, The Year That Was: Science And Technology,” 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, “Nanotechnology: Improved Performance Information Needed for Environmental, Health, and Safety Research,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-427, May 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. D. Hitchings, “Teachers’ perceptions of evidence-based decision making: A case study of three schools in British Columbia,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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. Brantley, “Theater; Three Sisters, Lots of Kvetching,” New York Times, p. AR3, Jul. 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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