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]

C. G. Nichols, “KATP channels as molecular sensors of cellular metabolism,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7083, pp. 470–476, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Nori and A. Tonomura, “Applied physics. Helical spin order on the move,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5759, pp. 344–345, Jan. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Maeda, D. V. L. Norum, and T. F. Gallagher, “Microwave manipulation of an atomic electron in a classical orbit,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5716, pp. 1757–1760, Mar. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. J. Kaufman et al., “Late Archean biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5846, pp. 1900–1903, 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]

M. Pagliaro, Nano-Age. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. Daradoumis, S. N. Demetriadis, and F. Xhafa, Eds., Intelligent Adaptation and Personalization Techniques in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, vol. 408. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 408. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Zeng and Y. Yuan, “The Motivated Topicalization and Referentiality of the Compound Noun in Chinese,” in Chinese Lexical Semantics: 17th Workshop, CLSW 2016, Singapore, Singapore, May 20–22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, M. Dong, J. Lin, and X. Tang, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 40–50.

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]

E. Andrew, “What Is The Smallest Thing In The Universe?,” IFLScience, Aug. 12, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-smallest-thing-universe/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Train Braking: DOT’s Rulemaking on Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brakes Could Benefit from Additional Data and Transparency,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-17-122, Oct. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Tickner, “Production and consumption at the hillfort site of Mont Dardon, France: An archeobotanical analysis,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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. Pilon and G. Kolata, “New to Most Fans, IGF-1 Has Long Been Banned as a Performance Enhancer,” New York Times, p. B13, Jan. 30, 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]–[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

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