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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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]
P. Wickware, “Fields of dreams,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6870, pp. 4–5, Jan. 2002.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
S. Milne and R. Hinde, “Obituary: Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005,” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7059, p. 634, Sep. 2005.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
P. Garcia, R. Armstrong, and M. H. Zaman, “Models of education in medicine, public health, and engineering,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6202, pp. 1281–1283, Sep. 2014.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
C. Pridans, K. A. Sauter, K. Baer, H. Kissel, and D. A. Hume, “CSF1R mutations in hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids are loss of function,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3013, Oct. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
P. B. Radcliff, Modern Spain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.
An edited book
[1]
L. Bauer, L. Körtvélyessy, and P. Štekauer, Eds., Semantics of Complex Words, vol. 3. in Studies in Morphology, vol. 3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
E. B. Paz, M. Ceccarelli, J. E. Otero, and J. L. M. Sanz, “Medieval Machines and Mechanisms,” in A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms, M. Ceccarelli, J. Echávarri Otero, and J. L. Muñoz Sanz, Eds., in History of Mechanism and Machine Science. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 65–90.

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]
J. Davis, “How A Dog Copes With Stress Depends On Its Temperament,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-dog-copes-stress-depends-its-temperament/

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, “School Bullying: Extent of Legal Protections for Vulnerable Groups Needs to Be More Fully Assessed,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-349, May 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
C. M. Kaplan, “Understanding the Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol on the Central Extended Amygdala in Humans,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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]
J. F. Wasik, “How Student Debt Is Snuffing Out Creative Sparks,” New York Times, p. B7, Jan. 11, 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 titleIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
AbbreviationIEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)0196-2892
ScopeGeneral Earth and Planetary Sciences
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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