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

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

R. Monastersky, “Shooting for the moon,” Nature, vol. 460, no. 7253, pp. 314–315, Jul. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. C. Correia and J. Laskar, “The four final rotation states of Venus,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6839, pp. 767–770, Jun. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Hori, T. Nomura, and S. Sakaguchi, “Control of regulatory T cell development by the transcription factor Foxp3,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5609, pp. 1057–1061, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Wang et al., “Nitrogen and phosphorus addition impact soil N₂O emission in a secondary tropical forest of South China,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5615, Jul. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. J. Bakus, Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

[1]

V. Berezin, Ed., Structure and Function of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule NCAM, vol. 663. in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 663. New York, NY: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Shughart, “Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics: And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It,” in Doing More with Less: Making Colleges Work Better, J. C. Hall, Ed., New York, NY: Springer, 2010, pp. 71–93.

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 Consumer Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Oldest Sex Act Revealed,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-sex-act-revealed/

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, “Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-99-84, Feb. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. O. Griess, “A canine audience: The effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on reading progress among students identified with learning disabilities,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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]

B. Brantley, “A Pot of Gold Has to Be Good, Right?,” New York Times, p. C1, Nov. 07, 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 Consumer Electronics
ISSN (print)	0098-3063
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology