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]

J. Wood, “Obituary: Alastair Cameron (1925-2005),” Nature, vol. 438, no. 7069, p. 752, Dec. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Digicaylioglu and S. A. Lipton, “Erythropoietin-mediated neuroprotection involves cross-talk between Jak2 and NF-kappaB signalling cascades,” Nature, vol. 412, no. 6847, pp. 641–647, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Chait, A. Craney, and R. Kishony, “Antibiotic interactions that select against resistance,” Nature, vol. 446, no. 7136, pp. 668–671, Apr. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.-C. Chiang et al., “Cisplatin modulates B-cell translocation gene 2 to attenuate cell proliferation of prostate carcinoma cells in both p53-dependent and p53-independent pathways,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5511, Jul. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Pahl, Interference Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

T. Janowski and H. Mohanty, Eds., Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 4th International Conference, ICDCIT 2007, Bangalore, India, December 17-20. Proceedings, vol. 4882. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4882. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Eppelbaum and B. Khesin, “Regional Physical-Geological Models and Regioning,” in Geophysical Studies in the Caucasus, B. Khesin, Ed., in Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 139–217.

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]

S. Luntz, “Low Fat Chocolate Has Potential To Electrify Production,” IFLScience, Jun. 20, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/low-fat-chocolate-has-potential-to-electrify-production/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Slot-Controlled Airports: FAA’s Rules Could Be Improved to Enhance Competition and Use of Available Capacity,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-902, Sep. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. L. Eaglen Bertrando, “Rethinking Workplace Learning in the Digital World: A Case Study of Open Badges,” 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]

J. Leland, “Waiting,” New York Times, p. MB7, Apr. 28, 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]–[4].

About the journal

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

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