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]

P. Smaglik, “And sets up a body to oversee trials,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6787, p. 607, Jun. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Turi and A. Madarász, “Comment on ‘Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity?,’” Science, vol. 331, no. 6023, pp. 1387; author reply 1387, Mar. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Shembade, A. Ma, and E. W. Harhaj, “Inhibition of NF-kappaB signaling by A20 through disruption of ubiquitin enzyme complexes,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5969, pp. 1135–1139, Feb. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Skrott et al., “Alcohol-abuse drug disulfiram targets cancer via p97 segregase adaptor NPL4,” Nature, vol. 552, no. 7684, pp. 194–199, Dec. 2017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Schmidt, Optische Spektroskopie. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2000.

An edited book

[1]

J. Abascal, S. Barbosa, M. Fetter, T. Gross, P. Palanque, and M. Winckler, Eds., Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015: 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part III, 1st ed. 2015., vol. 9298. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9298. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Fifka and C. R. Loza Adaui, “Managing Stakeholders for the Sake of Business and Society,” in New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: Locating the Missing Link, L. O’Riordan, P. Zmuda, and S. Heinemann, Eds., Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2015, pp. 71–87.

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]

S. Luntz, “Curiosity Observes First Transit On Another World,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-observes-first-transit-another-world/

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, “Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-14, Dec. 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Ren, “Modification and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons for Resorcinol Removal,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2014.

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. Hollander, “History in the Bronx Includes Naismith and Ali,” New York Times, p. 814, Dec. 08, 2002.

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