How to format your references using the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Technology and Society 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]

P. J. Reimer, “Atmospheric science. Refining the radiocarbon time scale,” Science, vol. 338, no. 6105, pp. 337–338, Oct. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Straneo and P. Heimbach, “North Atlantic warming and the retreat of Greenland’s outlet glaciers,” Nature, vol. 504, no. 7478, pp. 36–43, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. M. Ho, J.-A. Lee, and K. C. Martin, “The cell biology of synaptic plasticity,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6056, pp. 623–628, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Scheel, A. A. Zdebik, S. Lourdel, and T. J. Jentsch, “Voltage-dependent electrogenic chloride/proton exchange by endosomal CLC proteins,” Nature, vol. 436, no. 7049, pp. 424–427, Jul. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Masujima, Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M.-H. Chiu, H.-L. Tuan, H.-K. Wu, J.-W. Lin, and C.-C. Chou, Eds., Chemistry Education and Sustainability in the Global Age. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Maragoudakis, N. Cosmas, and A. Garbis, “Mining Natural Language Programming Directives with Class-Oriented Bayesian Networks,” in Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 4th International Conference, ADMA 2008, Chengdu, China, October 8-10, 2008. Proceedings, C. Tang, C. X. Ling, X. Zhou, N. J. Cercone, and X. Li, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 15–26.

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 Technology and Society Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “How Much Room Do We Need To Supply The Entire World With Solar Electricity?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-much-room-do-we-need-supply-entire-world-solar-electricity/

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, “Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Actions to Strengthen Its Enforcement Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-985T, Jul. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Dillard, “Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and Implementation Science,” 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. Feeney, “Eating at the Mega-Market,” New York Times, p. NJ10, Mar. 01, 2009.

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 Technology and Society Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0278-0097
Scope	General Engineering General Social Sciences