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

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

C. Robinson, “Flight of fancy,” Nature, vol. 434, no. 7035, p. 827, Apr. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. A. Inamdar and J. W. Bennett, “A common fungal volatile organic compound induces a nitric oxide mediated inflammatory response in Drosophila melanogaster,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3833, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Dong, G. Yang, and H. S. McHaourab, “Structural basis of energy transduction in the transport cycle of MsbA,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5724, pp. 1023–1028, May 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Cognet, D. A. Tsyboulski, J.-D. R. Rocha, C. D. Doyle, J. M. Tour, and R. B. Weisman, “Stepwise quenching of exciton fluorescence in carbon nanotubes by single-molecule reactions,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5830, pp. 1465–1468, Jun. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. W. Vallin, The Elements of Cantor Sets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. R. Ahuja and S. M. Jain, Eds., Genetic Diversity and Erosion in Plants: Indicators and Prevention, vol. 7. in Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol. 7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Bolajraf, “Control Synthesis for General Positive 2D Models,” in Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015: MedCT 2015 Volume 2, A. El Oualkadi, F. Choubani, and A. El Moussati, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 31–39.

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 Electron Devices.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Large Feathered, Winged Dinosaur Was Close Relative Of Velociraptor,” 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, “Ways To Improve Management of Automated Data Processing Resources,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, LCD-74-110, Apr. 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-C. Hsieh, “Self-access center and autonomous learning: EFL college students’ motivations, activities and perceptions of learning effectiveness,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 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. Hubbard and M. R. Gordon, “U.S. War Footprint Grows, With No Endgame in Sight,” New York Times, p. A1, Mar. 30, 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 Electron Devices
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Electron Devices
ISSN (print)	0018-9383
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials