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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

F. Collins, “Scientists need a shorter path to research freedom,” Nature, vol. 467, no. 7316, p. 635, Oct. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Xu and T. C. Südhof, “A neural circuit for memory specificity and generalization,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6125, pp. 1290–1295, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. N. Brantley, K. M. Wiggins, and C. W. Bielawski, “Unclicking the click: mechanically facilitated 1,3-dipolar cycloreversions,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6049, pp. 1606–1609, Sep. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. A. Thilker et al., “Massive star formation within the Leo ‘primordial’ ring,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7232, pp. 990–993, Feb. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Hagen, Chemiereaktoren. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A. Liwo, Ed., Computational Methods to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Biomolecular Processes: From Bioinformatics to Molecular Quantum Mechanics, vol. 1. in Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics, vol. 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Noble, R. Piddocke, and D. Bakmand-Mikalski, “The Search User Interface,” in Pro SharePoint 2010 Search, R. Piddocke and D. Bakmand-Mikalski, Eds., Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2011, pp. 121–177.

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, “Clean Energy Sources Provided Up To 50% Of The UK’s Electricity This Summer,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/clean-energy-sources-provided-up-to-50-of-the-uks-electricity-this-summer/

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, “Study of Guaranteed Student Loan Bankruptcy,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-77-80, Apr. 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Cooper, “Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow in a Porous Media Using Python,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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, “Americans Are Flocking to Canada’s Pristine Gulf Islands,” New York Times, p. 1111, May 01, 2005.

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