How to format your references using the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 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]

A. Petherick, “Development: Mother’s milk: A rich opportunity,” Nature, vol. 468, no. 7327, pp. S5-7, Dec. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Sahin and R. A. Depinho, “Linking functional decline of telomeres, mitochondria and stem cells during ageing,” Nature, vol. 464, no. 7288, pp. 520–528, Mar. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Zhang, Z. Ma, and J.-F. Liu, “Equilibrium spin current in graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6464, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Zheng et al., “Regulatory T-cell suppressor program co-opts transcription factor IRF4 to control T(H)2 responses,” Nature, vol. 458, no. 7236, pp. 351–356, Mar. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Kaplan, Maxima and Minima with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.

An edited book

[1]

S. K. Mishra, V-Invex Functions and Vector Optimization, vol. 14. in Optimization and Its Applications, vol. 14. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Gamalielsson and B. Lundell, “On Involvement in Open Standards: How Do Organisations Contribute to W3C Standards Through Editorship?,” in Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings, K. Crowston, I. Hammouda, B. Lundell, G. Robles, J. Gamalielsson, and J. Lindman, Eds., in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 57–70.

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 on Selected Areas in Communications.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Ant Fight! Dopamine Turns Workers Into Queens,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ant-fight-dopamine-turns-workers-queens/

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, “FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Late Seasons and Bag Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-99-19, Nov. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. D. Adler, “Change in Automatic and Strategic Cognition: An Examination of Cognitive Therapy for Depression,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 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]

B. Brantley, “A Circle of Hell: the Staff Meeting,” New York Times, p. C1, Oct. 09, 2016.

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 on Selected Areas in Communications
ISSN (print)	0733-8716
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering