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]

J. Gould, “Cannabis: 4 big questions,” Nature, vol. 525, no. 7570, p. S18, Sep. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Li and X. Yong, “Entanglement guarantees emergence of cooperation in quantum prisoner’s dilemma games on networks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6286, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Taniyasu, M. Kasu, and T. Makimoto, “An aluminium nitride light-emitting diode with a wavelength of 210 nanometres,” Nature, vol. 441, no. 7091, pp. 325–328, May 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Matsuzaki, N. Honkura, G. C. R. Ellis-Davies, and H. Kasai, “Structural basis of long-term potentiation in single dendritic spines,” Nature, vol. 429, no. 6993, pp. 761–766, Jun. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. R. Myers, Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

[1]

P. Inverardi and M. Jazayeri, Eds., Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age: Software Education and Training Sessions at the International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 15-21, 2005, Revised Lectures, vol. 4309. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4309. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. D. Meleth, V. R. Raiji, N. Krishnadev, and E. Y. Chew, “Therapy of Nonexudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration,” in Age-related Macular Degeneration Diagnosis and Treatment, A. C. Ho and C. D. Regillo, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2011, pp. 65–78.

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. Davis, “Japanese Zoo Culls 57 Snow Monkeys Due To Mixed Genes From ‘Invasive Alien Species,’” 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, “Substance Abuse Surveys,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-96-179R, Jul. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Voss, “Supported housing program for severely mentally ill homeless individuals: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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, “Sam Shepard, Whose Plays Forged a New Frontier, Dies at 73,” New York Times, p. A1, Jul. 31, 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 on Selected Areas in Communications
ISSN (print)	0733-8716
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering