How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering citation style

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

M. A. Nowak, “Generosity: A winner’s advice,” Nature, vol. 456, no. 7222, p. 579, Dec. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Camacho and A. Arenas, “Food-web topology: universal scaling in food-web structure?,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7044, pp. E3-4; discussion E4, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Spéder, G. Adám, and S. Noselli, “Type ID unconventional myosin controls left-right asymmetry in Drosophila,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7085, pp. 803–807, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.-X. Zhong, J.-J. Shi, M. Zhang, X.-H. Jiang, P. Huang, and Y.-M. Ding, “Reducing Mg acceptor activation-energy in Al(0.83)Ga(0.17)N disorder alloy substituted by nanoscale (AlN)₅/(GaN)₁ superlattice using Mg(Ga) δ-doping: Mg local-structure effect,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6710, Oct. 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. Hellesland, N. Challamel, C. Casandjian, and C. Lanos, Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. G. Bagley, Ed., The Tumor Microenvironment. in Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. New York, NY: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. V. Rao, “Knobology,” in Practical Point-of-Care Medical Ultrasound, J. M. Daniels and R. A. Hoppmann, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 71–92.

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 Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Do No Harm To Life On Mars? Ethical Limits Of The ‘Prime Directive,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/do-no-harm-life-mars-ethical-limits-prime-directive/

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, “Can the Federal Communications Commission Successfully Implement Its Computer II Decision?,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, CED-82-38, Jan. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. A. Lewis, “Love and hate: The study of school principals moving from job motivation to job frustration,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2012.

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]

M. Billard, “Nonstop Days, a Red Carpet Night,” New York Times, p. E1, Nov. 14, 2013.

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 Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1534-4320
Scope	Computer Science Applications Biomedical Engineering General Neuroscience