How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. 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]

E. Hasselbrink, “Chemistry. Capturing the complexities of molecule-surface interactions,” Science, vol. 326, no. 5954, pp. 809–810, Nov. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. R. Shah and N. L. Abbott, “Principles for measurement of chemical exposure based on recognition-driven anchoring transitions in liquid crystals,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5533, pp. 1296–1299, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Rappuoli, H. I. Miller, and S. Falkow, “Medicine. The intangible value of vaccination,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5583, pp. 937–939, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

U. F. S. Hameed, J. Lim, Q. Zhang, M. A. Wasik, D. Yang, and K. Swaminathan, “Transcriptional repressor domain of MBD1 is intrinsically disordered and interacts with its binding partners in a selective manner,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4896, May 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Potter, The Life of William Shakespeare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P. Duarte, Lyapunov Exponents of Linear Cocycles: Continuity via Large Deviations, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 3. in Atlantis Studies in Dynamical Systems, vol. 3. Paris: Atlantis Press, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Goggin, “Mobile Learning: The Significance of New Mobile and Wireless Communications Technologies for Education,” in Comparative Information Technology: Languages, Societies and the Internet, D. Gibbs and J. Zajda, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 65–78.

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 Very Large Scale Integration Systems.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Lichen: A Three-Way Symbiosis,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lichen-a-threeway-symbiosis/

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, “Security: Breaches at Federal Agencies and Airports,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-OSI-00-10, May 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. H. Kane, “A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 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]

B. Hubbard and D. E. Sanger, “3 Nations Meet for Syria Talks, Excluding U.S,” New York Times, p. A1, Dec. 21, 2016.

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 Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. VLSI Syst.
ISSN (print)	1063-8210
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering