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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Computers. 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. Butler, “France plans marine research port at Brest,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6786, p. 498, Jun. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. O. Scully and A. A. Svidzinsky, “Physics. The Lamb shift--yesterday, today, and tomorrow,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5983, pp. 1239–1241, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. E. Brown, A. H. Bouchez, and C. A. Griffith, “Direct detection of variable tropospheric clouds near Titan’s south pole,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6917, pp. 795–797, 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Letzner, N. Patzke, J. Verhaal, and M. Manns, “Shaping a lateralized brain: asymmetrical light experience modulates access to visual interhemispheric information in pigeons,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4253, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Choudhry, Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

G. Rehm and H. Uszkoreit, Eds., The Maltese Language in the Digital Age. in White Paper Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Öchsner and M. Merkel, “Torsion Bar,” in One-Dimensional Finite Elements: An Introduction to the FE Method, M. Merkel, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 51–56.

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 Computers.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “Here’s What Would Happen To Your Brain If You Took A Trip To Mars,” 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, “Department of Transportation: Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-99-50, Jun. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Dinh, “A study of cell-based genetic algorithms with applications to neural networks,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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. A. V. Chaban, “Gefilte Fish Is Scarce This Passover. Taste Buds Are Ambivalent,” New York Times, p. A1, Apr. 15, 2014.

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 Computers
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0018-9340
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Hardware and Architecture Software Theoretical Computer Science