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]

B. A. Ponder, “Cancer genetics,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6835, pp. 336–341, May 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Navarro and N. H. Barton, “Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence--accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5617, pp. 321–324, Apr. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Jin, P. Li, and D. Xiao, “Enhanced electrocatalytic performance for oxygen reduction via active interfaces of layer-by-layered titanium nitride/titanium carbonitride structures,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6712, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. R. L. Anderegg et al., “Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought,” Nature, vol. 561, no. 7724, pp. 538–541, Sep. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z.-G. Wang, Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P. Boca, J. P. Bowen, and J. Siddiqi, Eds., Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions. London: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Hart and D. Davoudani, “Dendritic Cell Trafficking: From Immunology to Engineering,” in Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, P. S. Andrews, J. Timmis, N. D. L. Owens, U. Aickelin, E. Hart, A. Hone, and A. M. Tyrrell, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 11–13.

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]

A. Carpineti, “Pair Of Infant Planets Spotted Forming Around A Young Star,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/pair-of-infant-planets-spotted-forming-around-a-young-star/

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, “Airport Improvement Program: Program Funding by State Relative to Enplanements for Selected Years,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-94-7FS, Oct. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. J. Reyes-Rodriguez, “Nucleophilic additions to a para-benzyne derived from an enediyne: Exploring the non-radical reactivity of a diradical,” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2013.

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. Sisario, “Ed Sheeran Holds No. 1 as Drake Inches Up,” New York Times, p. C3, Mar. 20, 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