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]

S. M. Slivan, “Spin vector alignment of Koronis family asteroids,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6902, pp. 49–51, Sep. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Gautel and E. Ehler, “Cell biology. Gett’N-WASP stripes,” Science, vol. 330, no. 6010, pp. 1491–1492, Dec. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Tanaka, Y. Okada, and N. Hirokawa, “FGF-induced vesicular release of Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid in leftward nodal flow is critical for left-right determination,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7039, pp. 172–177, May 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Parnell, A. J. Boyce, A. Hurst, B. Davidheiser-Kroll, and J. Ponicka, “Long term geological record of a global deep subsurface microbial habitat in sand injection complexes,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1828, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. van Helvoort, Next Generation SDH/SONET. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J. F. Audette and A. Bailey, Eds., Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management. in Contemporary Pain Medicine, Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. V. Shmigol, S. A. Alekseev, O. Y. Lavrynenko, V. N. Zaitsev, D. Barbier, and V. A. Pokrovskiy, “Surface-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization of Low Molecular Organic Substances on Oxidized Porous Silicon,” in Nanomaterials and Supramolecular Structures: Physics, Chemistry, and Applications, A. P. Shpak and P. P. Gorbyk, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 45–50.

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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “99.999% Certainty Humans Are Driving Global Warming: New Study,” 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, “DOD Business Systems Modernization: Longstanding Management and Oversight Weaknesses Continue to Put Investments at Risk,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-553T, Mar. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. J. Rice, “Before the Storm: Evacuation Intention and Audience Segmentation,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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]

B. Shpigel, “A Contender Reaches a New High,” New York Times, p. SP1, Mar. 26, 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 Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0196-2892
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering