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]

P. Smaglik, “Attractive information,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7041, p. 529, May 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Rajagopalan and C. Lengauer, “Aneuploidy and cancer,” Nature, vol. 432, no. 7015, pp. 338–341, Nov. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. J. Wood, M. J. Walter, and J. Wade, “Accretion of the Earth and segregation of its core,” Nature, vol. 441, no. 7095, pp. 825–833, Jun. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Jiang, M. Mancuso, Z. Lu, G. Akar, E. Cesarman, and D. Erickson, “Solar thermal polymerase chain reaction for smartphone-assisted molecular diagnostics,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4137, Feb. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. A. Wiens, Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

T. Carraro, M. Geiger, S. Körkel, and R. Rannacher, Eds., Multiple Shooting and Time Domain Decomposition Methods: MuS-TDD, Heidelberg, May 6-8, 2013, vol. 9. in Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol. 9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. B. Holland, “Mesoamerican Biological Corridor,” in Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action, J. A. Hilty, C. C. Chester, and M. S. Cross, Eds., Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2012, pp. 56–66.

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]

R. Andrews, “Planet Earth II Captures The World’s Smallest Snake On Camera,” IFLScience, Nov. 07, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/planet-earth-ii-captures-worlds-smallest-snake-camera/ (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, “Airport Privatization: Issues Related to the Sale of U.S. Commercial Airports,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-96-82, Feb. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. S. Smith, “The relationship between legislative implementations and educator readiness in inclusive educational environments,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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. Kenigsberg, “Film Series,” New York Times, p. C27, Apr. 13, 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]–[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

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