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]

G. Church, “Improving genome understanding,” Nature, vol. 502, no. 7470, p. 143, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. J. Willis and S. A. Bhagwat, “Ecology. Biodiversity and climate change,” Science, vol. 326, no. 5954, pp. 806–807, Nov. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. V. Cheianov, V. Fal’ko, and B. L. Altshuler, “The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5816, pp. 1252–1255, Mar. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Real et al., “In vivo modeling of human neuron dynamics and Down syndrome,” Science, vol. 362, no. 6416, Nov. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Sabol, Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

V. Matoušek and P. Mautner, Eds., Text, Speech and Dialogue: 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, vol. 4629. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4629. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Jensen, “Pitch Gestures in Generative Modeling of Music,” in Exploring Music Contents: 7th International Symposium, CMMR 2010, Málaga, Spain, June 21-24, 2010. Revised Papers, S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet, and K. Jensen, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 51–59.

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]

E. Andrew, “Watch The Test Flight Launch of the Deep-Space Orion Spacecraft,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-test-flight-launch-deep-space-orion-spacecraft/

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, “Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at Western Carolina University and Participating Schools in North Carolina,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-164031(1), May 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. D. Gardner, “A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus),” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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]

M. Pilon, “Wing-Suited Stuntman Executes a Super-Hero Plunge,” New York Times, p. B11, May 24, 2012.

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