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]

S. Brenner, “Turing centenary: Life’s code script,” Nature, vol. 482, no. 7386, p. 461, Feb. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Ma and I. Karaman, “Materials science. Expanding the repertoire of shape memory alloys,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5972, pp. 1468–1469, Mar. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Lin, A. B. Owen, and R. B. Altman, “Genetics. Genomic research and human subject privacy,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5681, p. 183, Jul. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Roos-Serote et al., “Proximate humid and dry regions in Jupiter’s atmosphere indicate complex local meteorology,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6783, pp. 158–160, May 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.-C. Li, B. Yu, J.-J. Wei, and Y. Kawaguchi, Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. Keller, M. Wiberg, P. J. Ågerfalk, and J. S. Z. Eriksson Lundström, Eds., Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings, vol. 124. in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 124. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Sakawa and I. Nishizaki, “Cooperative Decision Making in Hierarchical Organizations,” in Cooperative and Noncooperative Multi-Level Programming, I. Nishizaki and M. Sakawa, Eds., in Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009, pp. 83–179.

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]

E. Andrew, “Computer Program Cannot Be Beaten At Texas Hold ’Em Poker,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/unbeatable-computer-program-has-solved-texas-hold-em-poker/

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, “Certain Food Aspects of the School Lunch Program in New York City,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, CED-77-89, Jun. 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Than, “The impact of companion pets on the well-being of older adults,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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]

S. Antilla, “69 Red Flags Catch Up to a Broker,” New York Times, p. B1, May 19, 2015.

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