How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in 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]

P. Parham, “Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5685, pp. 786–787, Aug. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Frank and R. W. Friedrich, “Neurobiology: Individuality sniffed out in flies,” Nature, vol. 526, no. 7572, pp. 200–201, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Jiang, S. Kirmizialtin, and I. C. Sanchez, “Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4011, Feb. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. J. Lee et al., “Mannose receptor-mediated regulation of serum glycoprotein homeostasis,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5561, pp. 1898–1901, Mar. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Malcolm, The British and Irish Short Story Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P. Vadász, Ed., Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media: From Bioengineering and Microelectronics to Nanotechnology, vol. 22. in Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol. 22. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Choi, B. V. Thummadi, K. Lyytinen, and Y. Yoo, “Analyzing Complex Design Processes: The Effects of Task Automation and Integration on Process Structure in Microprocessor Design,” in Practical Aspects of Design Science: European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2011, Leixlip, Ireland, October 14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, M. Helfert and B. Donnellan, Eds., in Communications in Computer and Information Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 38–49.

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 Emerging Topics in Computing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Envision 2050: The Future Of The Oceans,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/envision-2050-future-oceans/

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, “Consolidation of Computer-Output-Microfilm Facilities in Hawaii,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, LCD-76-129, Nov. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Santos, “Altruism in Psychotherapy: Altruistic Acts as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2019.

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. W. Walsh, “Eugene R. Anderson, 82; He Made Insurers Pay Up,” New York Times, p. A17, Aug. 03, 2010.

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 Emerging Topics in Computing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput.
ISSN (print)	2168-6750
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Information Systems