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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 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	Download the output style file
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. Knapp, “Evolution. What, where, and when?,” Science, vol. 341, no. 6151, pp. 1182–1184, Sep. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Fortey and B. Chatterton, “A Devonian trilobite with an eyeshade,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5640, p. 1689, Sep. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. H. Oliet, R. Piet, and D. A. Poulain, “Control of glutamate clearance and synaptic efficacy by glial coverage of neurons,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5518, pp. 923–926, May 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Vento-Tormo et al., “Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal-fetal interface in humans,” Nature, vol. 563, no. 7731, pp. 347–353, Nov. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. K. Ballast, Interior Detailing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Dörner, S. Göbel, W. Effelsberg, and J. Wiemeyer, Eds., Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Trujillo, R. Romero, and E. Berjano, “Modelos Teóricos basados en Métodos Numéricos de un Aplicador Cool-tip para Ablación RF de Tumores: Relación entre la Temperatura y la Impedancia,” in V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All, J. Folgueras Méndez, T. Y. Aznielle Rodríguez, C. F. Calderón Marín, S. B. Llanusa Ruiz, J. Castro Medina, H. Vega Vázquez, M. Carballo Barreda, and R. Rodríguez Rojas, Eds., in IFMBE Proceedings. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 17–20.

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 Multimedia.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “What Your Pee And Poo Colour Says About Your Health,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-your-pee-and-poo-colour-says-about-your-health/

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, “LOCAL Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2005,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-858R, Jul. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Thompson, “Paid formal caregivers and caregiver burden: A quantitative study,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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]

S. K. (nyt), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Anti-Semitic Violence,” New York Times, p. A10, May 29, 2002.

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 Multimedia
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Multimedia
ISSN (print)	1520-9210
Scope	Computer Science Applications Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology