How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 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]

F. Albarède, “Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7268, pp. 1227–1233, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. A. Morgan and A. Shilatifard, “Medicine. (Poly)combing the pediatric cancer genome for answers,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6134, pp. 823–824, May 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. D’Hondt, S. Rutherford, and A. J. Spivack, “Metabolic activity of subsurface life in deep-sea sediments,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5562, pp. 2067–2070, Mar. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. A. Boulos, F. Zhang, E. S. Tjandra, A. D. Martin, D. Spagnoli, and C. L. Raston, “Spinning up the polymorphs of calcium carbonate,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3616, Jan. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Blundell, R. Harrison, and B. Turney, The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

D. H. Laidlaw and A. Vilanova, Eds., New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields. in Mathematics and Visualization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Barth, “Embedded DRAM in Nano-scale Technologies,” in Embedded Memories for Nano-Scale VLSIs, K. Zhang, Ed., in Integrated Circuits and Systems. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009, pp. 127–175.

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 Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Greenland’s Ice Loss Has Been Massively Underestimated,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenlands-ice-loss-has-been-massively-underestimated/

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, “Customs Service Modernization: Results of Review of First Automated Commercial Environment Expenditure Plan,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-01-696, Jun. 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. S. Blasdel, “A phenomenological study of barriers for women in federal law enforcement,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

M. W. Walsh, “In Puerto Rico, Talks Resume Between Utility and Creditors,” New York Times, p. B6, Jan. 29, 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 Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
ISSN (print)	0278-0070
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering