How to format your references using the IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 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]

R. A. Dixon, “Natural products and plant disease resistance,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6839, pp. 843–847, Jun. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Eberl and D. R. Littman, “Thymic origin of intestinal alphabeta T cells revealed by fate mapping of RORgammat+ cells,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5681, pp. 248–251, Jul. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. B. Leitch, D. K. Sarko, and K. C. Catania, “Brain mass and cranial nerve size in shrews and moles,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6241, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Hu et al., “Phylogenetic evidence for multiple intertypic recombinations in enterovirus B81 strains isolated in Tibet, China,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6035, Aug. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. K. Baker and P. English, Capital Budgeting Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Yorke, Learning Standards and the Assessment of Quality in Higher Education: Contested Policy Trajectories, vol. 7. in Policy Implications of Research in Education, vol. 7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Anglani, P. Caricato, A. Grieco, and F. Nucci, “Selecting Capacity Plan,” in Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Models for Capacity Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems, A. Matta and Q. Semeraro, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005, pp. 191–231.

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 Reviews in Biomedical Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “Pygmy-Possums In Hibernation Can Sense Danger From Fires,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pygmypossums-in-hibernation-can-sense-danger-from-fires/

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, “Information Technology Investment: Agencies Can Improve Performance, Reduce Costs, and Minimize Risks,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AIMD-96-64, Sep. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. B. Arzaga, “Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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]

B. Protess, A. E. Kramer, and M. McINTIRE, “Bank in Kushner Meeting Wields Power for Kremlin,” New York Times, p. A1, Jun. 05, 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 Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
Abbreviation	IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1937-3333
Scope	Biomedical Engineering