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]

R. H. Baughman, “Auxetic materials: avoiding the shrink,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6959, p. 667, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. E. Hibbs and E. Gouaux, “Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor,” Nature, vol. 474, no. 7349, pp. 54–60, Jun. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Fabiańska, G. Kassier, and T. Feurer, “Split ring resonator based THz-driven electron streak camera featuring femtosecond resolution,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5645, Jul. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. V. Sergina et al., “Escape from HER-family tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy by the kinase-inactive HER3,” Nature, vol. 445, no. 7126, pp. 437–441, Jan. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. G. Yukihara and S. W. S. McKeever, Optically Stimulated Luminescence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

S. Pfeiffer, Beginning HTML5 Media: Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Garner, “Trends and Issues: The Consumption and Sustainability of Digital Media in the Modern Global Economy,” in Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 37, M. Orey, S. A. Jones, and R. M. Branch, Eds., in Educational Media and Technology Yearbook. , New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 45–54.

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, “Japanese Government Panel Finds ‘Breakthrough’ Stem Cell Study Used Falsified Data,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/japanese-government-panel-finds-‘breakthrough’-stem-cell-study-used-falsified/

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, “Information Technology: Customs Has Made Progress on Automated Commercial Environment System, but It Faces Long-Standing Management Challenges and New Risks,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-580, May 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. H. Kane, “A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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. Logan, “Selfless,” New York Times, p. MM54, Apr. 26, 2013.

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