How to format your references using the IEEE Internet Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Internet Computing. 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	Download the output style file
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]

G.-R. Walther, “Ecology. Tackling ecological complexity in climate impact research,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5812, pp. 606–607, Feb. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. H. Roxburgh and K. Mokany, “Comment on ‘From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity,’” Science, vol. 316, no. 5830, pp. 1425; author reply 1425, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. K. Wootton, C. L. Halbert, and A. D. Miller, “Sheep retrovirus structural protein induces lung tumours,” Nature, vol. 434, no. 7035, pp. 904–907, Apr. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Molinari, V. Calanca, C. Galli, P. Lucca, and P. Paganetti, “Role of EDEM in the release of misfolded glycoproteins from the calnexin cycle,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5611, pp. 1397–1400, Feb. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Pollak, Fine Chemicals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D. M. Gabbay, Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics. in Cognitive Technologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Fu, W. Yu, C. Wu, B. Zhao, and Z. Feng, “NC-STP: A High Performance Network Coding Based Space Transport Protocol,” in Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 9th International Conference, WASA 2014, Harbin, China, June 23-25, 2014. Proceedings, Z. Cai, C. Wang, S. Cheng, H. Wang, and H. Gao, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 34–43.

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 Internet Computing.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “Planet Earth II: Why Most Animals Can’t Hack City Living,” 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, “Contract Management: Few Competing Proposals for Large DOD Information Technology Orders,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-00-56, Mar. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. R. Pierre, “A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2019.

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]

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS, “Love That Look, Wonder Woman,” New York Times, p. C3, Jul. 05, 2010.

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 Internet Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Internet Comput.
ISSN (print)	1089-7801
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications