How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 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]

C. Miller, “ClC chloride channels viewed through a transporter lens,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7083, pp. 484–489, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Domon and R. Aebersold, “Mass spectrometry and protein analysis,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5771, pp. 212–217, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Umari, E. Mosconi, and F. De Angelis, “Relativistic GW calculations on CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3SnI3 perovskites for solar cell applications,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4467, Mar. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Op den Camp et al., “LysM-type mycorrhizal receptor recruited for rhizobium symbiosis in nonlegume Parasponia,” Science, vol. 331, no. 6019, pp. 909–912, Feb. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Pascoe, Reliability Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

I. Kowarik and S. Körner, Eds., Wild Urban Woodlands: New Perspectives for Urban Forestry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. A. Delamere et al., “Solar Wind and Internally Driven Dynamics: Influences on Magnetodiscs and Auroral Responses,” in The Magnetodiscs and Aurorae of Giant Planets, K. Szego, N. Achilleos, C. Arridge, S. Badman, P. Delamere, D. Grodent, M. Galland Kivelson, and P. Louarn, Eds., in Space Sciences Series of ISSI. , New York, NY: Springer, 2016, pp. 51–97.

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 Quantum Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Robot Chef That Can Cook 2,000 Meals Set To Go On Sale In 2017,” 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, “Public Transportation: Survey of Project Sponsors on Their Transit Projects and Experience with the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs (GAO-07-927SP, July 2007), an E-supplement to GAO-07-917,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-927SP, Jul. 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. D. Brown, “Disparity in healthcare among Black Americans in the United States, a review of the literature,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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. Binder, “A Disaster Wrapped In Victory,” New York Times, p. A21, May 08, 2017.

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 Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.
ISSN (print)	1077-260X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics