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]

S. Nadis, “Industry considers carbon catching,” Nature, vol. 406, no. 6793, p. 224, Jul. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Li and Y. Wang, “What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China?,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5972, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. G. Angelakis, P. Das, and C. Noh, “Probing the topological properties of the Jackiw-Rebbi model with light,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6110, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Chen et al., “TGF-β1, IL-6, and TNF-α in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: useful markers for lung cancer?,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5595, 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]

E. Morrow, A. Boaz, S. Brearley, and F. Ross, Handbook of Service User Involvement in Nursing and Healthcare Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

P. Victor, Trust Networks for Recommender Systems, vol. 4. in Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, vol. 4. Paris: Atlantis Press, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. de Lara and E. Guerra, “Reusable Graph Transformation Templates,” in Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance: 4th International Symposium, AGTIVE 2011, Budapest, Hungary, October 4-7, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, A. Schürr, D. Varró, and G. Varró, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 35–50.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, “This Is The Message We Have Sent To Aliens,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-message-aliens/

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, “Protest of NASA RFP,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-177184, May 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. J. Freeman, “Gene-environment interaction in early onset bipolar disorder,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012.

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]

B. Sisario, “Beyoncé and Radiohead to Headline Coachella,” New York Times, p. C3, Jan. 03, 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], [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