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]

H. Ledford, “Liquid fuel synthesis: making it up as you go along,” Nature, vol. 444, no. 7120, pp. 677–678, Dec. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Fraser and W. Bickmore, “Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation,” Nature, vol. 447, no. 7143, pp. 413–417, May 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Jenkins, J. R. Saam, and S. E. Mango, “CYK-4/GAP provides a localized cue to initiate anteroposterior polarity upon fertilization,” Science, vol. 313, no. 5791, pp. 1298–1301, Sep. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Y. Lim et al., “Transcriptional regulation of adrenomedullin by oncostatin M in human astroglioma cells: implications for tumor invasion and migration,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6444, Sep. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. McGuiggan, GPRS in Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

P. Kostkova, Ed., Electronic Healthcare: Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 27. in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 27. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Ben Mrad, V. Delcroix, M. A. Maalej, S. Piechowiak, and M. Abid, “Uncertain Evidence in Bayesian Networks: Presentation and Comparison on a Simple Example,” in Advances in Computational Intelligence: 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, Catania, Italy, July 9-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi, B. Matarazzo, and R. R. Yager, Eds., in Communications in Computer and Information Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 39–48.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, “NASA’s New Images Of Titan Remind Us Why This Moon Of Saturn Is So Frickin’ Cool,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-new-images-of-titan-remind-us-why-its-so-frickin-cool/

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, “James Webb Space Telescope: Actions Needed to Improve Cost Estimate and Oversight of Test and Integration,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-13-4, Dec. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. A. Norton, “O’Connor’s agent casual theory of free will: An evaluation,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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]

M. Kenney, “Lonely in the L.P.G.A,” New York Times, p. SP1, Aug. 09, 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 Professional Communication
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Prof. Commun.
ISSN (print)	0361-1434
Scope	Industrial relations Electrical and Electronic Engineering