How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 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]

J. A. Dowdeswell, “Atmospheric science. The Greenland Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5763, pp. 963–964, Feb. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Medzhitov and C. A. Janeway Jr, “Decoding the patterns of self and nonself by the innate immune system,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5566, pp. 298–300, Apr. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Muraoka, K. Kinbara, and T. Aida, “Mechanical twisting of a guest by a photoresponsive host,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7083, pp. 512–515, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Ito, A. Ghosh, L. A. Moreira, E. A. Wimmer, and M. Jacobs-Lorena, “Transgenic anopheline mosquitoes impaired in transmission of a malaria parasite,” Nature, vol. 417, no. 6887, pp. 452–455, May 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Utas, Robust Communications Software. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

D. J. Goldberg, Ed., Laser Dermatology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Beck and R. Geoghegan, “Recursion,” in The Art of Proof: Basic Training for Deeper Mathematics, R. Geoghegan, Ed., in Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. , New York, NY: Springer, 2010, pp. 33–45.

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 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Watch This Lightning Strike In Slow Motion,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/video-lightning-slowly-striking-fascinating/

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, “Electronic Surveillance: Technologies Continue to Pose Challenges,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-AIMD-94-173, Aug. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. A. Szurgyi, “Leadership competencies required of Army officers to counter the Improvised Explosive Device threat,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

K. Slivka, “First Half of Year Hottest On Record,” New York Times, p. A11, Jul. 10, 2012.

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]–[4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control
ISSN (print)	0885-3010
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Acoustics and Ultrasonics Instrumentation