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]

M. Dando, “Biologists napping while work militarized,” Nature, vol. 460, no. 7258, pp. 950–951, Aug. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Nussenzveig and J. C. A. Barata, “Physics. A drop of quantum matter,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5985, pp. 1491–1492, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Allard, M. Burton, and F. Muré, “Spectroscopic evidence for a lava fountain driven by previously accumulated magmatic gas,” Nature, vol. 433, no. 7024, pp. 407–410, Jan. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. D. Atkinson, A. Meade, C. Venditti, S. J. Greenhill, and M. Pagel, “Languages evolve in punctuational bursts,” Science, vol. 319, no. 5863, p. 588, Feb. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Pruitt, The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

S. Fischer-Hübner, E. de Leeuw, and C. Mitchell, Eds., Policies and Research in Identity Management: Third IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference, IDMAN 2013, London, UK, April 8-9, 2013. Proceedings, vol. 396. in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 396. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Cioranescu, V. Girault, and K. R. Rajagopal, “Grade-Two Fluids: Some Theoretical Results,” in Mechanics and Mathematics of Fluids of the Differential Type, V. Girault and K. R. Rajagopal, Eds., in Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 179–310.

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, “Indigenous Medicine – A Fusion Of Ritual And Remedy,” IFLScience, Jan. 05, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/indigenous-medicine-fusion-ritual-and-remedy/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-97-150, Jun. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. E. Robinson, “How personality traits and job satisfaction influence service quality in housing agencies,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

S. H. Howe, “Mandan Territory, U.S.A,” New York Times, p. PART TWO SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR534, Aug. 06, 1904.

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 Consumer Electronics Magazine
ISSN (print)	2162-2248
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