How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems citation style

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

K. J. Gaston, “Ecology: the importance of being rare,” Nature, vol. 487, no. 7405, pp. 46–47, Jul. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Wang and J. Overgaard, “Ecology. The heartbreak of adapting to global warming,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5808, pp. 49–50, Jan. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. J. Tosca, A. H. Knoll, and S. M. McLennan, “Water activity and the challenge for life on early Mars,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5880, pp. 1204–1207, May 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Gomberg, J. L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K. C. Creager, J. E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, “Widespread triggering of nonvolcanic tremor in California,” Science, vol. 319, no. 5860, p. 173, Jan. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. E. Gup, Banking and Financial Institutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Ma, Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and their Applications, vol. 1702. in Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1702. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. P. De Padova and A. Tosti, “Pyruvic Acid,” in Color Atlas of Chemical Peels, A. Tosti, P. E. Grimes, and M. P. De Padova, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 25–32.

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 Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Rising CO2 Levels Are Changing How Fast Forests Cycle Water,” IFLScience, May 17, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-co2-levels-are-changing-how-fast-forests-cycle-water/ (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, “DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, MASAD-82-16, Jan. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Ethridge, “Determining the variables that contribute to job tenure for people with psychiatric disabilities participating in an evidenced-based supported employment program,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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. Kenigsberg, “Film Series,” New York Times, p. C22, Jun. 22, 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 Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst.
ISSN (print)	1932-4545
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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