How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 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. Bussières, “Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4929, May 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Ceci and W. M. Williams, “Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ? YES: The scientific truth must be pursued,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7231, pp. 788–789, Feb. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. F. Bence, R. M. Sampat, and R. R. Kopito, “Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system by protein aggregation,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5521, pp. 1552–1555, May 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. L. Etcoff, P. Ekman, J. J. Magee, and M. G. Frank, “Lie detection and language comprehension,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6783, p. 139, May 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Perez, VoLTE and ViLTE. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

K. Potiron, From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems. in SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. London: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Stankovic and J.-U. Voigt, “Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report,” in Translational Approach to Heart Failure, J. Bartunek and M. Vanderheyden, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 91–118.

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 Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-much-sleep-do-you-really-need/

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, “Space Shuttle: Issues Associated With the Vandenberg Launch Site,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-87-32BR, Oct. 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Strand, “Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2014.

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]

J. Glanz, “As Energy Secretary, Perry May Be Pressed to Resume Nuclear Tests,” New York Times, p. A12, Dec. 28, 2016.

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 Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
ISSN (print)	1051-8215
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology