How to format your references using the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 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]

E. Ott, “Obituary: Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008),” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7193, p. 300, May 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Hanson and D. Voss, “Sunrise. Introduction. Hinode,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5856, p. 1571, Dec. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Hulleman, M. H. van Kerkwijk, and S. R. Kulkarni, “An optical counterpart to the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U0142+61,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6813, pp. 689–692, Dec. 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Both, S. Bouwhuis, C. M. Lessells, and M. E. Visser, “Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird,” Nature, vol. 441, no. 7089, pp. 81–83, May 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure, Particle Size Classifiers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993.

An edited book

[1]

C. Damro, European Competition Policy and Globalization. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.-M. Osei-Bryson and O. Ngwenyama, “An Approach for Using Data Mining to Support Theory Development,” in Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research: Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking, K.-M. Osei-Bryson and O. Ngwenyama, Eds. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014, pp. 23–43.

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 Signal Processing Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “Unusual Artwork Showing Mongoose On A Leash Revealed In Ancient Egyptian Tomb,” IFLScience, May 11, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/unusual-artwork-showing-mongoose-on-a-leash-revealed-in-ancient-egyptian-tomb/ (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, “Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Programs, but More Work Remains,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-08-487T, May 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I. Hernandez, “Strong-DISM: A First Attempt to a Dynamically Typed Assembly Language (D-TAL),” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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, “Was It ‘Normal New York City Conversation’? Did Trump Speak Fast?,” New York Times, p. A23, Jun. 08, 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 Signal Processing Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Signal Process. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1053-5888
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics

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