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]

R. Stocker, “Marine microbes see a sea of gradients,” Science, vol. 338, no. 6107, pp. 628–633, Nov. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. J. Koester and D. Johnston, “Target cell-dependent normalization of transmitter release at neocortical synapses,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5723, pp. 863–866, May 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. W. Liu, O. Mazor, and R. I. Wilson, “Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain,” Nature, vol. 519, no. 7543, pp. 353–357, Mar. 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Kawane et al., “Chronic polyarthritis caused by mammalian DNA that escapes from degradation in macrophages,” Nature, vol. 443, no. 7114, pp. 998–1002, Oct. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. A. Vagelli, The Banggai Cardinalfish. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Banasiak, Perturbations of Positive Semigroups with Applications. in Springer Monographs in Mathematics. London: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. G. Chase et al., “Tight Glycemic Control in Intensive Care: From Engineering to Clinical Practice Change,” in 5th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering: 14–18 September 2011, Budapest, Hungary, Á. Jobbágy, Ed., in IFMBE Proceedings. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 11–14.

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, “Latest Dark Matter Survey Finds Inconsistencies With Previous Observations,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/latest-dark-matter-survey-finds-inconsistencies-with-previous-observations/

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, “NASA Budgets: Gap Between Funding Requirements and Projected Budgets Has Been Reopened,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-95-155BR, May 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. A. Morales, “Effects of communication and control latency on air traffic controller acceptance of unmanned aircraft operations,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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]

W. Hu, “An Eyesore for 17 Years in Harlem,” New York Times, p. A17, Jul. 16, 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 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