How to format your references using the IEEE Internet of Things Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 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. Grott, “Planetary science. Is Mars geodynamically dead?,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5880, pp. 1171–1172, May 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Ćuk and S. T. Stewart, “Making the Moon from a fast-spinning Earth: a giant impact followed by resonant despinning,” Science, vol. 338, no. 6110, pp. 1047–1052, Nov. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. P. Conrad, B. Steinberger, and T. H. Torsvik, “Conrad et al. reply,” Nature, vol. 503, no. 7477, p. E4, Nov. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ghosh, R. Parthasarathy, T. F. Rosenbaum, and G. Aeppli, “Coherent spin oscillations in a disordered magnet,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5576, pp. 2195–2198, Jun. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. A. Richards and J. C. Hollerton, Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

H. Liu, Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure: Agent-based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing. in Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Faravelli, C. Fuggini, and F. Ubertini, “Hybrid Control Procedures in Mitigating Cable Vibrations,” in Mechanics and Model-Based Control of Smart Materials and Structures, H. Irschik, M. Krommer, K. Watanabe, and T. Furukawa, Eds., Vienna: Springer, 2010, pp. 39–48.

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 of Things Journal.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “This Map Tells You If You’ll Be Vaporized By An Atomic Bomb,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-map-tells-you-if-youll-be-vaporized-by-an-atomic-bomb/

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, “Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-1150T, Sep. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mills, “Catherine of Siena: No Saint Is an Island,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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]

ADAM LIPTAK; Janet Roberts contributed reporting for this series. She was assisted by Linda Amster et al., “Locked Away Forever After Crimes as Teenagers,” New York Times, p. A1, Oct. 03, 2005.

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 of Things Journal
Abbreviation	IEEE Internet Things J.
ISSN (print)	2327-4662
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Signal Processing