How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 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. C. Knight, “Photonic crystal fibres,” Nature, vol. 424, no. 6950, pp. 847–851, Aug. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. W. J. Thompson and E. A. Barnes, “Periodic variability in the large-scale Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation,” Science, vol. 343, no. 6171, pp. 641–645, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Sakuragi, K. Tominaga-Yoshino, and A. Ogura, “Involvement of TrkB- and p75(NTR)-signaling pathways in two contrasting forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3185, Nov. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Gandon, M. J. Mackinnon, S. Nee, and A. F. Read, “Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence,” Nature, vol. 414, no. 6865, pp. 751–756, Dec. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Qu, Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

F. Neuhaus, Ed., Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Rahman, S. Barua, M. U. Ahmed, S. Begum, and B. Hök, “A Case-Based Classification for Drivers’ Alcohol Detection Using Physiological Signals,” in Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare: Third International Conference, HealthyIoT 2016, Västerås, Sweden, October 18-19, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, M. U. Ahmed, S. Begum, and W. Raad, Eds., in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 22–29.

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 Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “29 Of The Most Surreal Landscapes On The Planet,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/29-of-the-most-surreal-landscapes-on-the-planet/

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, “Benchmarking: Costly and Difficult, but Often Necessary When Buying Computer Equipment or Services,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AFMD-83-5, Oct. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Garlapally, “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Impact on Metamorphosis and Thyroid Development in African Clawed Frogs,” 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]

S. Hodara, “Affordability in a Bucolic Setting,” New York Times, p. RE17, Nov. 02, 2016.

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 Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	1939-1404
Scope	Atmospheric Science Computers in Earth Sciences