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]

M. Brockhurst, “Journal club. An evolutionary biologist marvels at how species evolve to help each other out,” Nature, vol. 464, no. 7288, p. 469, Mar. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Kingston and S. J. Rossiter, “Harmonic-hopping in Wallacea’s bats,” Nature, vol. 429, no. 6992, pp. 654–657, Jun. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. M. Hanash, S. J. Pitteri, and V. M. Faca, “Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers,” Nature, vol. 452, no. 7187, pp. 571–579, Apr. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. M. Korzhnev et al., “Low-populated folding intermediates of Fyn SH3 characterized by relaxation dispersion NMR,” Nature, vol. 430, no. 6999, pp. 586–590, Jul. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Rigo, Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C. Kim, High-Bandwidth Memory Interface. in SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Van Roey and V. Derbyshire, “GIY-YIG Homing Endonucleases — Beads on a String,” in Homing Endonucleases and Inteins, M. Belfort, D. W. Wood, B. L. Stoddard, and V. Derbyshire, Eds., in Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005, pp. 67–83.

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]

A. Carpineti, “What’s Inside A Red Giant?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-see-interior-red-giants-using-starquakes/

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, “Department of Education’s Federal Direct Loan Program: Status of Recommendations to Improve Cost Estimates and Presentation of Updated Cash Flow Information,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-567R, Mar. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. J. Kingsley, “Preschool teachers’ perceptions of factors influencing their referral decisions for young children with severe behavior problems,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012.

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]

E. St. John Kelly, “Building a Business, Quarter by Quarter,” New York Times, p. 144, May 17, 1998.

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