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. J. Cole-Hamilton, “Chemistry. Janus catalysts direct nanoparticle reactivity,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5961, pp. 41–42, Jan. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. J. Enemark and L. Joshua-Tor, “Mechanism of DNA translocation in a replicative hexameric helicase,” Nature, vol. 442, no. 7100, pp. 270–275, Jul. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. L. Mohanan, I. U. Arachchige, and S. L. Brock, “Porous semiconductor chalcogenide aerogels,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5708, pp. 397–400, Jan. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Tanaka, S. R. Collins, B. H. Toyama, and J. S. Weissman, “The physical basis of how prion conformations determine strain phenotypes,” Nature, vol. 442, no. 7102, pp. 585–589, Aug. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. D. Robinson, An Employer’s and Engineer’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Guerraggio, Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars, vol. 29. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Haque and P. Guo, “Membrane-Embedded Channel of Bacteriophage Phi29 DNA-Packaging Motor for Translocation and Sensing of Double-Stranded DNA,” in Nanopores: Sensing and Fundamental Biological Interactions, S. M. Iqbal and R. Bashir, Eds. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011, pp. 77–106.

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]

J. Davis, “Oldest Known Fish Hooks Found In A Japanese Island Cave,” IFLScience, Sep. 20, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/oldest-known-fish-hooks-found-in-a-japanese-island-cave/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-99-31, Jan. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Lingley-Papadopoulos, “Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

G. Vecsey, “At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play,” New York Times, p. D2, Jul. 11, 2011.

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]–[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

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