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]

J. Tommassen, “Biochemistry. Getting into and through the outer membrane,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5840, pp. 903–904, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Dey and A. Joshi, “Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5772, pp. 434–436, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Barthelemy, J. Bertolotti, and D. S. Wiersma, “A Lévy flight for light,” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7194, pp. 495–498, May 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. J. Zeng et al., “Metallic resist for phase-change lithography,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5300, Jun. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Wilmott and D. Orrell, The Money Formula. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

N. Zagalo and P. Branco, Eds., Creativity in the Digital Age. in Springer Series on Cultural Computing. London: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Sahayaraj and R. Balasubramanian, “Gut Autochthonous Microbes and Their Enzyme Profile,” in Artificial Rearing of Reduviid Predators for Pest Management, R. Balasubramanian, Ed., Singapore: Springer, 2016, pp. 85–102.

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]

E. Andrew, “Dr. Oz Admits ‘Miracle’ Diet Products He Advocates Are Pseudoscience,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dr-oz-admits-‘miracle’-diet-products-he-advocates-are-pseudoscience/

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, “Cargo Tank Trucks: Improved Incident Data and Regulatory Analysis Would Better Inform Decisions about Safety Risks,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-13-721, Sep. 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. W. Schiffbauer, “The pursuit of self-esteem: A help or a hindrance in thriving in the workplace?,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

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]

C. Kelly, “Festival Lures Westchester’s High School Filmmakers,” New York Times, p. WE8, Mar. 22, 2009.

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]–[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