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]

F. Sohl, “Planetary science. Revealing Titan’s interior,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5971, pp. 1338–1339, Mar. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. N. Schulz and H. D. Schulz, “Large sulfur bacteria and the formation of phosphorite,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5708, pp. 416–418, Jan. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. T. Turvey, O. R. Green, and R. N. Holdaway, “Cortical growth marks reveal extended juvenile development in New Zealand moa,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7044, pp. 940–943, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Novotny et al., “Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests?,” Science, vol. 313, no. 5790, pp. 1115–1118, Aug. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. MacIsaac and R. Langton, Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. R. Mielenz, K. T. Klasson, W. S. Adney, and J. D. McMillan, Eds., Applied Biochemistry and Biotecnology: The Twenty-Eighth Symposium Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held April 30–May 3, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee. in ABAB Symposium. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Schwartz and A. Haider, “Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s Not All Black and White,” in Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research, J. B. Dimick and C. C. Greenberg, Eds., in Success in Academic Surgery. , London: Springer, 2014, pp. 47–61.

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]

T. Hale, “Sonar Images Reveal A WW2 Submarine Sunk By A Nazi Ship,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sonar-images-reveal-a-ww2-submarine-sunk-by-a-nazi-ship/

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, “Mass Transit: Grants Management Oversight Improving, but Better Follow-up Needed on Grantees’ Noncompliance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-98-89, Apr. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

X. Song, “A New Estimating Equation Based Approach for Secondary Trait Analyses in Genetic Case-control Studies,” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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]

M. Kolomatsky, “May’s Most Popular Properties,” New York Times, p. RE2, Jun. 09, 2017.

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