How to format your references using the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 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. Qiu, “Climatology. Monsoon melee,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6139, pp. 1400–1401, Jun. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Pouille and M. Scanziani, “Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5532, pp. 1159–1163, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Lohse, B. Schmitz, and M. Versluis, “Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles,” Nature, vol. 413, no. 6855, pp. 477–478, Oct. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Koskelainen, P. Ala-Laurila, N. Fyhrquist, and K. Donner, “Measurement of thermal contribution to photoreceptor sensitivity,” Nature, vol. 403, no. 6766, pp. 220–223, Jan. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Kieser, M. Taylor, and D. Carr, Forensic Biomechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Misra, Opportunistic Mobile Networks: Advances and Applications, 1st ed. 2016. in Computer Communications and Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Orłowska and J. Golińska-Pilarek, “Dual Tableaux for Fork Algebras,” in Dual Tableaux: Foundations, Methodology, Case Studies, J. Golińska Pilarek, Ed., in Trends in Logic. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 105–120.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Google Tracks The Benefit Of Vaccinations,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-tracks-benefit-vaccinations/

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, “[Comments on Proposed Amendment to FAR Shipping Weight and Dimension Requirements],” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-229011, Oct. 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

U. T. Hayes, “Mental health services for foster youth: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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]

K. Crow, “Looking For Love,” New York Times, p. 141, Feb. 11, 2001.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1545-598X
Scope	Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Electrical and Electronic Engineering