How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs citation style

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

D. Charlesworth, “Evolution. Competitive centromeres,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5907, pp. 1484–1485, Dec. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. G. Van de Walle and J. Neugebauer, “Universal alignment of hydrogen levels in semiconductors, insulators and solutions,” Nature, vol. 423, no. 6940, pp. 626–628, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. J. London, J. Kimmelman, and B. Carlisle, “Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials,” Science, vol. 336, no. 6081, pp. 544–545, May 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Guimerà, B. Uzzi, J. Spiro, and L. A. N. Amaral, “Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5722, pp. 697–702, Apr. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. M. Cannon, An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Novales, Economic Growth: Theory and Numerical Solution Methods, 2nd ed. 2014. in Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. T. Nagrale, L. Sharma, S. Kumar, and S. P. Gawande, “Recent Diagnostics and Detection Tools: Implications for Plant Pathogenic Alternaria and Their Disease Management,” in Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and Management Practices, P. Kumar, V. K. Gupta, A. K. Tiwari, and M. Kamle, Eds., in Fungal Biology. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 111–163.

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 II: Express Briefs.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “Latest Observations Of The TRAPPIST-1 System Shows The Planets In Perfect Harmony,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/latest-observations-of-the-trappist-1-system-shows-the-planets-in-perfect-harmony/

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: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-696T, May 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. McMiller, “Policy analysis on the Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997,” 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]

Z. Schonbrun, “A Dimmed Marquee,” New York Times, p. B11, Jul. 02, 2013.

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 II: Express Briefs
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs
ISSN (print)	1549-7747
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering