How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing citation style

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

D. C. Bassham, “Plant biology: Pigments on the move,” Nature, vol. 526, no. 7575, pp. 644–645, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Claustre and S. Maritorena, “Ocean science. The many shades of ocean blue,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5650, pp. 1514–1515, Nov. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Nazir, B. Amin, and U. Schwingenschlögl, “Suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas in LaGaO3/SrTiO3 by cation intermixing,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3409, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Tsukamoto, A. Kuma, M. Murakami, C. Kishi, A. Yamamoto, and N. Mizushima, “Autophagy is essential for preimplantation development of mouse embryos,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5885, pp. 117–120, Jul. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Banks, An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

T. Andreasen, R. R. Yager, H. Bulskov, H. Christiansen, and H. L. Larsen, Eds., Flexible Query Answering Systems: 8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009. Proceedings, vol. 5822. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5822. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. C. Calafiore, L. Carlone, and F. Dellaert, “Lagrangian Duality in Complex Pose Graph Optimization,” in Optimization and Its Applications in Control and Data Sciences: In Honor of Boris T. Polyak’s 80th Birthday, B. Goldengorin, Ed., in Springer Optimization and Its Applications. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 139–184.

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 Signal Processing.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “Tesla Powers A Whole Island With Solar Power,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tesla-powers-a-whole-island-with-solar-power/

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, “Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Management of Northeast Corridor Improvements Demonstrates Need for Applying Best Practices,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-94, Feb. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. H. Nguyen, “Adolescent substance use family-based treatment: A grant proposal project,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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]

M. J. de la MERCED, “‘Trump Bump’ Gives President a Win in His First 100 Days,” New York Times, p. B1, Apr. 28, 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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.
ISSN (print)	1932-4553
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering