How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. 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]

Q. Wang, “Nuclear safety lies in greater transparency,” Nature, vol. 494, no. 7438, p. 403, Feb. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Callan and I. Gillespie, “The path to new medicines,” Nature, vol. 449, no. 7159, pp. 164–165, Sep. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. S. Paolo, H. A. Fricker, and L. Padman, “Ice sheets. Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6232, pp. 327–331, Apr. 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. J. Kim, J. Tersoff, S. Kodambaka, M. C. Reuter, E. A. Stach, and F. M. Ross, “Kinetics of individual nucleation events observed in nanoscale vapor-liquid-solid growth,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5904, pp. 1070–1073, Nov. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Soustelle, Handbook of Heterogenous Kinetics. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

J. A. E. E. Nunen, M. G. Speranza, and L. Bertazzi, Eds., Innovations in Distribution Logistics, vol. 619. in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol. 619. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Schmauder and L. Mishnaevsky Jr, “Atomistic and Dislocation Modelling,” in Micromechanics and Nanosimulation of Metals and Composites: Advanced Methods and Theoretical Concepts, L. Mishnaevsky, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 311–418.

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 Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Controversies In Medicine: The Rise And Fall Of The Challenge To Tamiflu,” IFLScience, Sep. 30, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversies-medicine-rise-and-fall-challenge-tamiflu/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Administrative Operations and Financial Transactions, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 092435, Feb. 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. H. Piper, “A Study of the Effectiveness of Alternative Schools through an Examination of Graduation Rates, School Climate, Student Motivation, and Academic Rigor,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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]

J. Medina, R. Pérez-Peña, and A. Goldman, “Meticulous Plan To Rain Carnage On Concertgoers,” New York Times, p. A1, Oct. 04, 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 Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Transl. Eng. Health Med.
ISSN (print)	2168-2372
Scope	Biomedical Engineering General Medicine

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