How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing citation style

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

N. D. Theise, “Now you see it, now you don’t,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7046, p. 1165, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Wang and A. Z. Genack, “Transport through modes in random media,” Nature, vol. 471, no. 7338, pp. 345–348, Mar. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Tilmes, R. Müller, and R. Salawitch, “The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5880, pp. 1201–1204, May 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Malmström, M. Beck, A. Schmidt, V. Lange, E. W. Deutsch, and R. Aebersold, “Proteome-wide cellular protein concentrations of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans,” Nature, vol. 460, no. 7256, pp. 762–765, Aug. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Padova, Adobe® Acrobat® X PDF Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. Prodi, M. Montalti, and N. Zaccheroni, Eds., Luminescence Applied in Sensor Science, vol. 300. in Topics in Current Chemistry, vol. 300. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Konieczny, I. Roterman-Konieczna, and P. Spólnik, “Regulation in Biological Systems,” in Systems Biology: Functional Strategies of Living Organisms, I. Roterman-Konieczna and P. Spólnik, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 125–165.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, “Fish With Human-Like Teeth Found In Lake Michigan Highlights Dangers Of Pet-Dumping,” 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, “Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Oversight of Wireless Phone Service,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-34, Nov. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Seevaratnam, “Forecasting Optimality in Resource Utilization for Cloud Computing Systems to Maximize Quality of Service,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

David Kelly: David Kelly is an editor of The Book Review, “PUGILISTS’ PROGRESS,” New York Times, p. 78, Jan. 11, 1987.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0196-2892
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering