How to format your references using the IEEE MultiMedia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE MultiMedia. 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	Download the output style file
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]

H. W. Kroto, “Working at the coal face,” Nature, vol. 467, no. 7317, p. S13, Oct. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. J. Gorin and F. D. Toste, “Relativistic effects in homogeneous gold catalysis,” Nature, vol. 446, no. 7134, pp. 395–403, Mar. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. J. Fuerstman, P. Garstecki, and G. M. Whitesides, “Coding/decoding and reversibility of droplet trains in microfluidic networks,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5813, pp. 828–832, Feb. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Marvier et al., “Ecology. Harvesting data from genetically engineered crops,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5875, pp. 452–453, Apr. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Dubuisson, Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S. Grech and K. Soldatic, Eds., Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook. in International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. R. Nasca, F. Lacarrubba, M. L. Musumeci, and G. Micali, “Inflammatory Disorders,” in Atlas of Male Genital Disorders: A Useful Aid for Clinical Diagnosis, M. Cusini, P. Donofrio, and F. Dinotta, Eds., Milano: Springer, 2013, pp. 51–97.

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 MultiMedia.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “NASA’s Mission To Touch The Sun Is Now Called The Parker Space Probe,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-mission-to-touch-the-sun-is-now-called-the-parker-space-probe/

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, “Domestic Aviation: Service Problems and Limited Competition Continue in Some Markets,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-98-176, Apr. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Penney, “Executive Fire Officers’ strategic thinking capabilities and their relationship with information and communication technology,” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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]

C. Kelly, “Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate,” New York Times, p. F4, Feb. 22, 2007.

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 MultiMedia
ISSN (print)	1070-986X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Signal Processing Software Media Technology