How to format your references using the IEEE Pervasive Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Pervasive Computing. 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	Download the output style file
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]

E. Check, “Safety panel backs principle of gene-therapy trials,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6916, p. 595, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. S. Chemla and J. Shah, “Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6837, pp. 549–557, May 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. B. Lambert, S. A. Gurusamy-Thangavelu, and K. Ma, “The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5968, pp. 984–986, Feb. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Yu et al., “Room temperature rubbing for few-layer two-dimensional thin flakes directly on flexible polymer substrates,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2697, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-G. Elias, Macromolecules. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

H. Fraser, Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual: Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge. in Palgrave Critical University Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. A. Burgoyne, J. Wild, and I. Fujinaga, “Compositional Data Analysis of Harmonic Structures in Popular Music,” in Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International Conference, MCM 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings, J. Yust, J. Wild, and J. A. Burgoyne, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 52–63.

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 Pervasive Computing.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “China Wants To Build A Lunar Base On The Far Side Of The Moon,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-wants-land-moons-far-side-first-time-and-build-lunar-base/

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, “ADP Systems: HCFA’s Failure to Follow Guidelines Makes Systems Effectiveness Uncertain,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-90-53, Jul. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O. L. Fuentez, “Proposition 21: Juveniles tried as adults,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

J. Moy, “A Bridge That Spans Cultures,” New York Times, p. A17, Oct. 09, 2017.

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 Pervasive Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Pervasive Comput.
ISSN (print)	1536-1268
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications Software