How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. 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. Kramers, “Geology. The smile of the Cheshire cat,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5530, pp. 619–620, Jul. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. M. Greif and A. Eichmann, “Vascular biology: Brain vessels squeezed to death,” Nature, vol. 508, no. 7494, pp. 50–51, Apr. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. H. Stracker, C. T. Carson, and M. D. Weitzman, “Adenovirus oncoproteins inactivate the Mre11-Rad50-NBS1 DNA repair complex,” Nature, vol. 418, no. 6895, pp. 348–352, Jul. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Baena-González, F. Rolland, J. M. Thevelein, and J. Sheen, “A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling,” Nature, vol. 448, no. 7156, pp. 938–942, Aug. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Vicat-Blanc, S. Soudan, R. Guillier, and B. Goglin, Computing Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. Kuger, E. Klieme, N. Jude, and D. Kaplan, Eds., Assessing Contexts of Learning: An International Perspective. in Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Abdullah and A. Hussain, “Using Biclustering for Automatic Attribute Selection to Enhance Global Visualization,” in Pixelization Paradigm: First Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, P. P. Lévy, B. L. Grand, F. Poulet, M. Soto, L. Darago, L. Toubiana, and J.-F. Vibert, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 35–47.

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 I: Regular Papers.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Scientists Strap Cameras On Squid To Observe Their Flashy Behavior,” IFLScience.

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, “Aviation Safety: Enhanced Oversight and Improved Availability of Risk- Based Data Could Further Improve Safety,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-24, Oct. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. J. Alimo, “From dialogue to action: The development of White racial allies,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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]

A. Douglas Stone and M. Schwab-Stone, “Why College Is Not Home,” New York Times, p. ED21, Feb. 05, 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]–[4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Regul. Pap.
ISSN (print)	1549-8328
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering