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

Heilbron, J.L.: ‘Wit and wisdom’Nature, 2005, 438, (7064), p. 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCarthy, P.M., Smith, W.A.: ‘Mechanical circulatory support--a long and winding road’Science, 2002, 295, (5557), pp. 998–999.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenn, K.M., Nusbaum, H.C., Margoliash, D.: ‘Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language’Nature, 2003, 425, (6958), pp. 614–616.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rivlin, M., Horev, J., Tsarfaty, I., Navon, G.: ‘Molecular imaging of tumors and metastases using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI’Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, p. 3045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maude, D.: ‘Global Private Banking and Wealth Management’ (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006)

An edited book

Narasimhan, P., Triantafillou, P. (Eds.): ‘Middleware 2012: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 3-7, 2012. Proceedings’ (Springer, 2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Molinari, E., Compare, A.: ‘Psicologia clinica dell’obesità in età pediatrica’, in Giovannini, M., Maffeis, C., Molinari, E., Scaglioni, S. (Eds.): ‘Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale’ (Springer, 2006), pp. 59–90

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

Taub, B.: ‘Shark Dies After Idiots Drag It From The Sea To Take Selfies’, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-dies-after-idiots-drag-it-from-the-sea-to-take-selfies/, 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: ‘Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lutchman, C.: ‘Leadership impact on turnover among power engineers in the Oil Sands of Alberta’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

Kelly, M.: ‘THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Third-Party Candidate; Perot’s Vision: Consensus by Computer’New York Times, 1992, p. 11.

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

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