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

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

E. Bodenschatz, “ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE. Clouds resolved,” Science, vol. 350, no. 6256, pp. 40–41, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Chiarugi and M. A. Moskowitz, “Cell biology. PARP-1--a perpetrator of apoptotic cell death?,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5579, pp. 200–201, Jul. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. L. Johnson, C. G. Constable, and L. Tauxe, “Geophysics. Mapping long-term changes in Earth’s magnetic field,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5628, pp. 2044–2045, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Hirotsu, S. Saeki, M. Yamamoto, and Y. Iino, “The Ras-MAPK pathway is important for olfaction in Caenorhabditis elegans,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6775, pp. 289–293, Mar. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. A. Dunne, A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Helfert, K.-H. Krempels, C. Klein, B. Donellan, and O. Guiskhin, Eds., Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems: 4th International Conference, SMARTGREENS 2015, and 1st International Conference VEHITS 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 579. in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 579. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Argamon and M. Koppel, “The Rest of the Story: Finding Meaning in Stylistic Variation,” in The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, S. Argamon, K. Burns, and S. Dubnov, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 79–112.

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 Information Theory.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Venus Encounters The Moon Before Dawn,” 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, “Proposed Relocation of the Offices of the Social Security Administrator and Staff,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-164031(4).113, May 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Noxon, “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography,” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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]

G. Vecsey, “A Love Story Affirmed Life In Time of War,” New York Times, p. SP6, Oct. 23, 2011.

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 Information Theory
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
ISSN (print)	0018-9448
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Library and Information Sciences