How to format your references using the IET Image Processing citation style

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

Jayawardhana, R.: ‘Astronomy. Unraveling brown dwarf origins’Science, 2004, 303, (5656), pp. 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

King, D.A., Thomas, S.M.: ‘Science and government. Taking science out of the box--foresight recast’Science, 2007, 316, (5832), pp. 1701–1702.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reimand, J., Wagih, O., Bader, G.D.: ‘The mutational landscape of phosphorylation signaling in cancer’Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, p. 2651.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, H., Xu, H., Zhou, Y., et al.: ‘The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family’Science, 2007, 315, (5814), pp. 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, M.J., Jr.: ‘Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010)

An edited book

Chandra, C.: ‘Supply Chain Configuration: Concepts, Solutions, and Applications’ (Springer US, 2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Shum, S.J.B., Selvin, A.M., Sierhuis, M., Conklin, J., Haley, C.B., Nuseibeh, B.: ‘Hypermedia Support for Argumentation-Based Rationale’, in Dutoit, A.H., McCall, R., Mistrík, I., Paech, B. (Eds.): ‘Rationale Management in Software Engineering’ (Springer, 2006), pp. 111–132

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 Image Processing.

Blog post

Taub, B.: ‘How LSD Could Change The World’, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-lsd-could-change-the-world/, 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: ‘International Broadcasting: Construction of U.S. Radio Relay Station in Israel’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Heckman, K.A.: ‘Pedogenesis & carbon dynamics across a lithosequence under ponderosa pine’. 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

Brantley, B.: ‘Clash of the Titans’New York Times, 2017, p. C5.

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 Image Processing
Abbreviation	IET Image Process.
ISSN (print)	1751-9659
Scope	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Signal Processing Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering