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. M. Hunten, “The sequestration of ethane on Titan in smog particles,” Nature, vol. 443, no. 7112, pp. 669–670, Oct. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. N. Pruitt and C. J. Goodnight, “Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions,” Nature, vol. 514, no. 7522, pp. 359–362, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Bao, H.-J. Lee, and J. J. Zheng, “Genome-wide network analysis of Wnt signaling in three pediatric cancers,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2969, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Li, S. Ji, Y. Gao, H. Luo, and M. Kanehira, “Core-shell VO2@TiO2 nanorods that combine thermochromic and photocatalytic properties for application as energy-saving smart coatings,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1370, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Hiltscher, W. Mühlthaler, and J. Smits, Industrial Pigging Technology. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

S. Chakravarty and R. Negi, Eds., Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. in Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. New Delhi: Springer India, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Mehl, “A Marathon Rather than a Sprint: The Reform of the Farmers’ Pension System in Germany and its Impacts,” in Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn, V. Beckmann and M. Padmanabhan, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 61–82.

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]

E. Andrew, “How Magic Mushrooms Change Your Brain,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/magic-mushroom-chemical-hyper-connects-brain/

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, “Transportation Safety: Results of Collection of Information on State Permitting Practices for Oversize Vehicles (GAO-15-235SP, February 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-236 [Reissued on February 27, 2015],” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-15-235SP, Feb. 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. A. Tajer, “Topics in MIMO networks,” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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]

S. Kishkovsky, “Russian Cancels Pardon Request In Chechen Case,” New York Times, p. A12, Sep. 22, 2004.

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