How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 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. A. Kerr, “GEOPHYSICS: Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5495, pp. 1274b–5b, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Elbert and M. Schauer, “Burnt into memory,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6910, p. 883, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

U. U. Sezen, R. L. Chazdon, and K. E. Holsinger, “Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5711, p. 891, Feb. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Ozdamar, R. Bose, M. Barrios-Rodiles, H.-R. Wang, Y. Zhang, and J. L. Wrana, “Regulation of the polarity protein Par6 by TGFbeta receptors controls epithelial cell plasticity,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5715, pp. 1603–1609, Mar. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. G. Markley, Principles of Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

[1]

P. Perny, M. Pirlot, and A. Tsoukiàs, Eds., Algorithmic Decision Theory: Third International Conference, ADT 2013, Bruxelles, Belgium, November 12-14, 2013, Proceedings, vol. 8176. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8176. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Cullinane, S. Cullinane, and T. Wang, “A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for Their Development,” in Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy: Volume 1: Applying Theory to Practice in Maritime Logistics, P. T.-W. Lee and K. Cullinane, Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 79–101.

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 Evolutionary Computation.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Signs Of 14,000-Year-Old Human Habitation Found In Southern South America,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/signs-of-14000-year-old-human-habitation-found-in-southern-south-america/

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, “Space Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in Space Systems Acquisitions and Keys to Achieving Them,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-626T, Apr. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. H. Vu, “Efficiency of pair-wise and multiple alignment algorithms in computational biology,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

A. Barnard, “U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria,” New York Times, p. A8, Jun. 10, 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 Evolutionary Computation
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1089-778X
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Software Theoretical Computer Science