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]

K. Johnson, “Astronomy. Infant globular clusters,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5582, pp. 776–777, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Bartek and J. Lukas, “Cell biology. Balancing life-or-death decisions,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5797, pp. 261–262, Oct. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Grey, J. W. Haggart, and P. L. Smith, “Variation in evolutionary patterns across the geographic range of a fossil bivalve,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5905, pp. 1238–1241, Nov. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Ogata, Y. Kanno, Y. Itoh, H. Tsugawa, and M. Suzuki, “Plant biochemistry: anthocyanin biosynthesis in roses,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7043, pp. 757–758, Jun. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. M. Heiberger, Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J. Nocedal, Numerical Optimization, Second Edition. in Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. New York, NY: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Héritier, “Cascade of FISDW Phases: Wave Vector Quantization and its Consequences,” in The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors, A. Lebed, Ed., in Springer Series in Materials Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 41–45.

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]

E. Andrew, “Fast-Spreading Killers: How Ebola Compares with Other Diseases,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fast-spreading-killers-how-ebola-compares-other-diseases/

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, “Survey of Public Affairs Activities by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, LCD-75-452, Sep. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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B. J. Pappenfus, “How frequency of change within organizations affects burnout of human resource professionals,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

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. W. Walsh, “Fresh Details on the Fed Rescue of A.I.G.’s Insurance Units,” New York Times, p. A4, Dec. 02, 2010.

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