How to format your references using the IEEE Pulse citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Pulse. 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. Sarewitz, “World view: Missing weapons,” Nature, vol. 464, no. 7289, p. 672, Apr. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Watanabe and S. Kondo, “Fish pigmentation. Comment on ‘Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish,’” Science, vol. 348, no. 6232, p. 297, Apr. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. E. Campbell, D. B. Lobell, and C. B. Field, “Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol,” Science, vol. 324, no. 5930, pp. 1055–1057, May 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. P. Shah, C. Tran, F. Y. Lee, P. Chen, D. Norris, and C. L. Sawyers, “Overriding imatinib resistance with a novel ABL kinase inhibitor,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5682, pp. 399–401, Jul. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. L. Primak and V. Kontorovich, Wireless Multi-Antenna Channels. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

K.-. H. Altmann, The Epothilones: An Outstanding Family of Anti-Tumor Agents: From Soil to the Clinic, vol. 90. in Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, vol. 90. Vienna: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Léon, “Cooperative Models for Information Technology Transfer in the Context of Open Innovation,” in Organizational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 14–16, Manchester, UK, T. McMaster, D. Wastell, E. Ferneley, and J. I. DeGross, Eds., in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007, pp. 43–61.

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 Pulse.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Does Taking Antidepressants During Pregnancy Harm The Child? Here Are The Facts,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-taking-antidepressants-during-pregnancy-harm-the-child-here-are-the-facts/

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, “GSA: Federal Communications Commission Planned Move to the Portals II Building,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GGD-98-65R, Feb. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F. J. Nistal França, “Nondestructive Evaluation of Southern Pine Lumber,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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]

J. B. Stewart, “When Politics Roils Market, Tuning Out May Pay Off,” New York Times, p. B1, May 25, 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 Pulse
Abbreviation	IEEE Pulse
ISSN (print)	2154-2287
Scope	Biomedical Engineering General Medicine