How to format your references using the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. 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. J. Leek, “Applied physics. Storing quantum information in Schrödinger’s cats,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6158, pp. 568–569, Nov. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Marquis and P. Tans, “Climate change. Carbon crucible,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5875, pp. 460–461, Apr. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Bai, A. V. Virovets, and M. Scheer, “Synthesis of inorganic fullerene-like molecules,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5620, pp. 781–783, May 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Schurig et al., “Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5801, pp. 977–980, Nov. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. E. McLeod, Leading with Noble Purpose. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Conti, M. Schunter, and I. Askoxylakis, Eds., Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 8th International Conference, TRUST 2015, Heraklion, Greece, August 24-26, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015., vol. 9229. 1st ed. 2015.in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9229. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Suraj and P. Grochowalski, “Patterns of Collaborations in Rough Set Research,” in Granular Computing: At the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets, R. Bello, R. Falcón, W. Pedrycz, and J. Kacprzyk, Eds., in Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 79–92.

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 Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Viruses May Play Vital Role In Brain Function,” IFLScience, Jan. 12, 2015.

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, “Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-99-31, Jan. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Ademiluyi, “Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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. J. O. Murphy, “What’s Left Behind,” New York Times, p. BR17, Aug. 22, 2010.

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 Vehicular Technology Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Veh. Technol. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1556-6072
Scope	Automotive Engineering

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