How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 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]

J. Kling, “Careers in systems biology. Working the systems,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5765, pp. 1305–1306, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Gong and L. E. Maquat, “lncRNAs transactivate STAU1-mediated mRNA decay by duplexing with 3’ UTRs via Alu elements,” Nature, vol. 470, no. 7333, pp. 284–288, Feb. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Sund, M. Andér, and J. Aqvist, “Principles of stop-codon reading on the ribosome,” Nature, vol. 465, no. 7300, pp. 947–950, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. J. Wainger, M. DeGennaro, B. Santoro, S. A. Siegelbaum, and G. R. Tibbs, “Molecular mechanism of cAMP modulation of HCN pacemaker channels,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6839, pp. 805–810, Jun. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. K. Das, Mobile Handset Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Picot and J. Lorenz, Eds., ICT for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Karande, “Quality of Life in Children Diagnosed with Specific Learning Disability or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder,” in Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs, D. Hollar, Ed., New York, NY: Springer, 2012, pp. 73–85.

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 Transactions on Affective Computing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Fossilized Brain of World’s Earliest Predator Found,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossilized-brain-worlds-earliest-predator-found/

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, “Information Technology Utilization by the Federal Government,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-IMTEC-89-9, Jun. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Hambarsoomian, “Classification of Placental Chorionic Surface Vasculature Network Features Using Machine Learning Techniques,” 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]

C. Yeginsu and I. Magra, “Chaotic Scramble as Fire Worries Force the Evacuation of 5 High Rises in London,” New York Times, p. A8, Jun. 23, 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 Transactions on Affective Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1949-3045
Scope	Human-Computer Interaction Software