How to format your references using the IEEE Network citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Network. 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]

D. Soderblom, “Astrophysics: Stellar clocks,” Nature, vol. 517, no. 7536, pp. 557–558, Jan. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Elderfield and G. Ganssen, “Past temperature and delta18O of surface ocean waters inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6785, pp. 442–445, May 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. J. Wittkopp, B. K. Haerum, and A. G. Clark, “Evolutionary changes in cis and trans gene regulation,” Nature, vol. 430, no. 6995, pp. 85–88, Jul. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Turner, T. A. Lachlan-Cope, S. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, and W. M. Connolley, “Significant warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5769, pp. 1914–1917, Mar. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Zarbock, S. Lynch, A. Ammann, and S. Ringer, Mindfulness for Therapists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

S. A. Mousa and P. J. Davis, Eds., Angiogenesis Modulations in Health and Disease: Practical Applications of Pro- and Anti-angiogenesis Targets. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Beckmann, “Non-local Transport in Superconductor–Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures,” in Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics, A. Sidorenko, Ed., in NanoScience and Technology. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 101–116.

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 Network.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “Neanderthal DNA Influences Your Biology A Lot More Than You Realize,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neanderthal-dna-influences-biology-more-realize/

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, “Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Potential Duplication in Federal Teacher Quality and Employment and Training Programs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-11-509T, Apr. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Robles, “Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters,” 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]

K. Barker and K. Taylor, “Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest,” New York Times, p. A1, Oct. 02, 2014.

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 Network
Abbreviation	IEEE Netw.
ISSN (print)	0890-8044
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software