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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 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	Download the output style file
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. C. Vernes, “Genome wide identification of fruitless targets suggests a role in upregulating genes important for neural circuit formation,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4412, Mar. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. B. Gurdon and D. A. Melton, “Nuclear reprogramming in cells,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5909, pp. 1811–1815, Dec. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. R. Beddington, D. J. Agnew, and C. W. Clark, “Current problems in the management of marine fisheries,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5832, pp. 1713–1716, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Wolfe-Simon et al., “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus,” Science, vol. 332, no. 6034, pp. 1163–1166, Jun. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Epstein, The Elements of Continuum Biomechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

F. van Vught, Ed., Mapping the Higher Education Landscape: Towards a European Classifi cation of Higher Education, vol. 28. in Higher Education Dynamics, vol. 28. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. N. Martens, M. Mistry, and M. Ruhrberg, “Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry,” in Sustainable Metals Management: Securing our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy, A. von Gleich, R. U. Ayres, and S. Gößling-Reisemann, Eds., in Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006, pp. 97–111.

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 Cybernetics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Baby Mammal Hatches From Egg,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-mammal-hatches-egg/

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, “Higher Education: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Reporting on These Activities Could Be Enhanced,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-6, Dec. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Gade, “Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

L. Greenhouse, “JUSTICES TAKE ON SPENDING LIMITS FOR CANDIDATES,” New York Times, p. A1, Sep. 28, 2005.

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 Cybernetics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Cybern.
ISSN (print)	2168-2267
Scope	Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Information Systems Software Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering