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]

E. C. Holmes, “Virology. 1918 and all that,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5665, pp. 1787–1788, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Ford and E. H. Spafford, “Computer science. Happy birthday, dear viruses,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5835, pp. 210–211, Jul. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Melcák, A. Hoelz, and G. Blobel, “Structure of Nup58/45 suggests flexible nuclear pore diameter by intermolecular sliding,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5819, pp. 1729–1732, Mar. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. A. Benitah, M. Frye, M. Glogauer, and F. M. Watt, “Stem cell depletion through epidermal deletion of Rac1,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5736, pp. 933–935, Aug. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Svensson, Cable-Stayed Bridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Volz, Ed., Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer, vol. 107. in Topics in Applied Physics, vol. 107. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. J. Tolwani and P. M. Palevsky, “Clinical Pearls: Renal Replacement Therapy for Acute Kidney Injury in the Postoperative Period,” in Perioperative Kidney Injury: Principles of Risk Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment, C. V. Thakar and C. R. Parikh, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2015, pp. 37–51.

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]

E. Andrew, “The Martian: A Perfect Balance Of Scientific Accuracy And Gripping Fiction,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/martian-perfect-balance-scientific-accuracy-and-gripping-fiction/

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, “Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-13-610T, May 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Aldaco, “Latinas attainment of higher education: What factors contribute to their success?,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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]

K. Belson and M. Pilon, “Track Town USA and Meet It Wants to Keep,” New York Times, p. D3, Jun. 30, 2012.

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