How to format your references using the IET Biometrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Biometrics. 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

Ober, C.K.: ‘Self-assembly. Persistence pays off’Science, 2002, 296, (5569), pp. 859–861.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berry, R.M., Armitage, J.P.: ‘Microbiology. How bacteria change gear’Science, 2008, 320, (5883), pp. 1599–1600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hnasko, T.S., Sotak, B.N., Palmiter, R.D.: ‘Morphine reward in dopamine-deficient mice’Nature, 2005, 438, (7069), pp. 854–857.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grine, F.E., Bailey, R.M., Harvati, K., et al.: ‘Late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and modern human origins’Science, 2007, 315, (5809), pp. 226–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Medhurst, D.: ‘A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law’ (Blackwell Science Ltd, 2008)

An edited book

Susilo, W., Mu, Y. (Eds.): ‘Information Security and Privacy: 19th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2014, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 7-9, 2014. Proceedings’ (Springer International Publishing, 2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Yamamoto, Y.: ‘Disputed Sentence Suggestion towards Credibility-Oriented Web Search’, in Sheng, Q.Z., Wang, G., Jensen, C.S., Xu, G. (Eds.): ‘Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings’ (Springer, 2012), pp. 34–45

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 IET Biometrics.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: ‘Women Aren’t Failing At Science — Science Is Failing Women’, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-arent-failing-at-science-science-is-failing-women/, accessed October 2018

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

Government Accountability Office: ‘Recovery Act Education Programs: Survey of School Districts’ Uses of Funds (GAO-11-885SP, September 2011), an E-supplement to GAO-11-804’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koh, S.A.: ‘A comparison of treatment integrity assessment methods for behavioral intervention’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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

Greenhouse, L.: ‘Supreme Court Set to Weigh Central Election-Law Issues’New York Times, 2006, p. A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Biometrics
Abbreviation	IET Biom.
ISSN (print)	2047-4938
Scope	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Software