How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing citation style

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

M.-M. Mac Low, “From gas to stars over cosmic time,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6140, p. 1229229, Jun. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Hirose and H. R. Horvitz, “An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways,” Nature, vol. 500, no. 7462, pp. 354–358, Aug. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Blum, K. W. Kafitz, and A. Konnerth, “Neurotrophin-evoked depolarization requires the sodium channel Na(V)1.9,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6908, pp. 687–693, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. H. Kim et al., “Near-infrared fluorescence imaging for noninvasive trafficking of scaffold degradation,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1198, Feb. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Hickey, A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H. Reimer, N. Pohlmann, and W. Schneider, Eds., ISSE 2014 Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights of the Information Security Solutions Europe 2014 Conference. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Eliashberg, A. Glvental, and H. Hofer, “Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory,” in Visions in Mathematics: GAFA 2000 Special volume, Part II, N. Alon, J. Bourgain, A. Connes, M. Gromov, and V. Milman, Eds., Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010, pp. 560–673.

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 Cloud Computing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “PhD Student Finds Two Massive Stars With Magnetic Fields In A Binary System,” 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, “Overhead Costs: Costs Charged by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace’s Space Station Division,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-94-150, Jun. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. U. Chirwa, “Encumbered Existence: A Three Movement Work for Jazz Orchestra,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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. Barron, “Off to Italy to Study Art: An Ex-Inmate’s Journey,” New York Times, p. A22, May 21, 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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
ISSN (print)	2168-7161
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software