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]

A.-E. Briciu, “Wavelet analysis of lunar semidiurnal tidal influence on selected inland rivers across the globe,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4193, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Hwang and E. T. Y. Chang, “Geophysics. Seafloor secrets revealed,” Science, vol. 346, no. 6205, pp. 32–33, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. L. Gustafson, D. Lim, and S. J. Miller, “Dynamic kinetic resolution of biaryl atropisomers via peptide-catalyzed asymmetric bromination,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5983, pp. 1251–1255, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. A. Forbes, M. A. Beasley, K. Bekki, J. P. Brodie, and J. Strader, “Galaxy disruption in a halo of dark matter,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5637, pp. 1217–1219, Aug. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Crane, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Scholich, Ed., Territorial Cohesion. in German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. de Groote and Y. Winter, “A Type-Logical Account of Quantification in Event Semantics,” in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2014 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, and GABA, Kanagawa, Japan, October 27-28, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, T. Murata, K. Mineshima, and D. Bekki, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, pp. 53–65.

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]

S. Luntz, “Houdini Honey Badgers Can Escape From Anywhere,” 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, “Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Strengthen Cybersecurity Over Sensitive Data and Protect Critical Infrastructure,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, D15087, Nov. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Sulaiman, “The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States During the Era of Sukarno 1945-1967,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2008.

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. Parker, “The Joys of Binge-Watching,” New York Times, p. BR10, 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 Network
Abbreviation	IEEE Netw.
ISSN (print)	0890-8044
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software