How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Haptics citation style

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

L. Bonetta, “Protein purification: protein purification for structural proteomics,” Nature, vol. 439, no. 7079, p. 1018, Feb. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Brown and H. M. Jaeger, “Materials science. Through thick and thin,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6047, pp. 1230–1231, Sep. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. M. Griffin, D. S. Hoffman, and P. L. Strick, “Corticomotoneuronal cells are ‘functionally tuned,’” Science, vol. 350, no. 6261, pp. 667–670, Nov. 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Lyapina et al., “Promotion of NEDD-CUL1 conjugate cleavage by COP9 signalosome,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5520, pp. 1382–1385, May 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. M. Holzer, Statische Beurteilung Historischer Tragwerke. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

H. Budak and G. Spangenberg, Eds., Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf: The Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Privat and R. Warner, “Working with Data Objects,” in Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, R. Warner, Ed., Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2011, pp. 133–186.

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 Haptics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Robot Kills Worker at Volkswagen Plant in Germany,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-kills-worker-volkswagen-plant-germany/

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, “President’s Fifth Special Message for FY 1983,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-83-7, Mar. 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. M. Becknell, “Listening to narratives of war,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2013.

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]

G. Megalogenis, “Powering Australia’s economic surge,” New York Times, p. A16, Nov. 01, 2016.

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 Haptics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Haptics
ISSN (print)	1939-1412
Scope	Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction