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

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

D. Butler, “The battle of Tugen Hills,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6828, pp. 508–509, Mar. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. M. Fernandez and H. Li, “Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5664, pp. 1674–1678, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Lutzoni, M. Pagel, and V. Reeb, “Major fungal lineages are derived from lichen symbiotic ancestors,” Nature, vol. 411, no. 6840, pp. 937–940, Jun. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.-S. Wang, T.-Y. Chang, T.-Y. Lin, and Y.-F. Chen, “Biologically inspired flexible quasi-single-mode random laser: an integration of Pieris canidia butterfly wing and semiconductors,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6736, 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]

V. Niemi and K. Nyberg, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

F. Cademartiri, G. Casolo, and M. Midiri, Eds., Clinical Applications of Cardiac CT, Second Edition. Milano: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Sweigart and K. Krechmery, “Interaction of Performance Measurements, Staffing, and Facility Requirements for the Heart Failure Observation Unit,” in Short Stay Management of Acute Heart Failure, W. F. Peacock, Ed., in Contemporary Cardiology. , Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2012, pp. 59–63.

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 Professional Communication.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Why Are There Clouds?,” 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, “Office of Science and Technology Policy: Violation of the Antideficiency Act,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-200T, Nov. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Manandhar, “Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 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]

L. Saslow, “LIPA Kills Wind Farm Off Jones Beach,” New York Times, p. LI2, Aug. 26, 2007.

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 Professional Communication
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Prof. Commun.
ISSN (print)	0361-1434
Scope	Industrial relations Electrical and Electronic Engineering