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]

A. Bradley, “Mining the mouse genome,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6915, pp. 512–514, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. R. Snook and D. J. Hosken, “Sperm death and dumping in Drosophila,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6986, pp. 939–941, Apr. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. J. Bonderer, A. R. Studart, and L. J. Gauckler, “Bioinspired design and assembly of platelet reinforced polymer films,” Science, vol. 319, no. 5866, pp. 1069–1073, Feb. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. A. Wohlschlegel, B. T. Dwyer, S. K. Dhar, C. Cvetic, J. C. Walter, and A. Dutta, “Inhibition of eukaryotic DNA replication by geminin binding to Cdt1,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5500, pp. 2309–2312, Dec. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. A. Kaltashov and S. J. Eyles, Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Yagi, S. B. Kang, I. S. Kweon, and H. Zha, Eds., Computer Vision – ACCV 2007: 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, vol. 4843. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4843. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. H. Elder, “Perceptual Organization of Shape,” in Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, S. J. Dickinson and Z. Pizlo, Eds., London: Springer, 2013, pp. 71–83.

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]

E. Andrew, “DARPA Wants to Genetically Engineer Organisms to Terraform Mars,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/darpa-wants-terraform-mars/

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, “Federal Family Education Loan Program: Statutory and Regulatory Changes Could Avert Billions in Unnecessary Federal Subsidy Payments,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-1070, Sep. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Luscinski, “Best Practices in Adult Online Learning,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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]

M. Pilon, “Canada Dominant in Curling,” New York Times, p. D6, Feb. 22, 2014.

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