How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing citation style

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

B. Martin, “From industry to academia,” Nature, vol. 429, no. 6989, pp. 324–325, May 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Sankar and M. K. Cho, “Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5597, pp. 1337–1338, Nov. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Xu, X.-D. Shang, and R. X. Huang, “Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5316, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. R. McConnell et al., “20th-century industrial black carbon emissions altered Arctic climate forcing,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5843, pp. 1381–1384, Sep. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Morvillo, Science and Religion. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kaminski and S. Martini, Eds., Computer Science Logic: 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy, September 16-19, 2008. Proceedings, vol. 5213. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5213. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. A. Gladkov, N. V. Gladkova, and S. N. Leiba, “Electronic Computing Equipment Schemes Elements Placement Based on Hybrid Intelligence Approach,” in Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 2: Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory, R. Silhavy, R. Senkerik, Z. K. Oplatkova, Z. Prokopova, and P. Silhavy, Eds., in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 35–44.

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 Dependable and Secure Computing.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, “Watch How This Year’s Early Spring Swept Through The US,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-how-this-years-early-spring-swept-through-the-us/

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, “National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-366T, Jan. 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. P. Mustico, “Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

J. Kanter, “‘Stupid Us’: U.S. Retirees and Fraud Tied to E.U. Commissioner,” New York Times, p. A5, May 12, 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 Dependable and Secure Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Dependable Secure Comput.
ISSN (print)	1545-5971
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering