How to format your references using the IEEE Sensors Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Sensors Journal. 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]

D. R. Gibson, “Nuclear deterrence: decisions at the brink,” Nature, vol. 487, no. 7405, pp. 27–29, Jul. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. H. Geisler and J. M. Theodor, “Hippopotamus and whale phylogeny,” Nature, vol. 458, no. 7236, pp. E1-4; discussion E5, Mar. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. A. Khashan, A. Alazzam, and E. P. Furlani, “Computational analysis of enhanced magnetic bioseparation in microfluidic systems with flow-invasive magnetic elements,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5299, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. G. Foulds et al., “A longitudinal study on α-synuclein in blood plasma as a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2540, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. P. Ryan, Modern Engineering Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

[1]

C.-M. Kyung, Ed., Theory and Applications of Smart Cameras. in KAIST Research Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Gecow, “Emergence of Chaos and Complexity During System Growth,” in From System Complexity to Emergent Properties, M. A. Aziz-Alaoui and C. Bertelle, Eds., in Understanding Complex Systems. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 115–154.

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 Sensors Journal.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Why Do We Age?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disorganized-bundles-dna-reveal-news-clues-aging/

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, “Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-00-163, Sep. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Jujhavarapu, “Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

K. Crow, “Beyond the Finish Line, Where Should Fans Gather?,” New York Times, p. 146, Oct. 01, 2000.

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 Sensors Journal
Abbreviation	IEEE Sens. J.
ISSN (print)	1530-437X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation