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]

P. Littlewood, “Physics. Condensates made of light,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5827, pp. 989–990, May 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. E. Abrams and J. R. Primack, “Essays on science and society. Cosmology and 21st-century culture,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5536, pp. 1769–1770, Sep. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. H. Shubin, E. B. Daeschler, and M. I. Coates, “The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5667, pp. 90–93, Apr. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Pappalardo, L. D’Auria, A. Cavallo, and S. Fiore, “Petrological and seismic precursors of the paroxysmal phase of the last Vesuvius eruption on March 1944,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6297, 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]

M. T. Biegelman and D. R. Biegelman, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S. Ystad, R. Kronland-Martinet, and K. Jensen, Eds., Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music: 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers, vol. 5493. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5493. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hordinsky and M. Ericson, “Hair Follicle Vascularization and Innervation,” in Hair Growth and Disorders, U. Blume-Peytavi, A. Tosti, and R. M. Trüeb, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 75–83.

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]

T. Hale, “This Swedish City Is Moving Three Kilometers Down The Road,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/swedish-city-moving-its-buildings-three-kilometers-down-road/

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, “Goddard Space Flight Center: Decision to Contract for Plant Operations and Maintenance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-93-92, Jan. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. S. Watts, “The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2008.

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]

C. Isherwood, “Old Friends, Sifting Grief at a Reunion,” New York Times, p. C1, Jun. 23, 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