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

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

Goulson, D.: ‘Ecology: Pesticides linked to bird declines’Nature, 2014, 511, (7509), pp. 295–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Höfling, S., Kavokin, A.: ‘Solid-state physics: A historic experiment redesigned’Nature, 2014, 514, (7522), pp. 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke, R.C., Poo, M.-M., Dan, Y.: ‘Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location’Nature, 2005, 434, (7030), pp. 221–225.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gibbons, D.L., Vaney, M.-C., Roussel, A., et al.: ‘Conformational change and protein-protein interactions of the fusion protein of Semliki Forest virus’Nature, 2004, 427, (6972), pp. 320–325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, F., Kaiser, T.: ‘Digital Signal Processing for RFID’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016)

An edited book

Wang, S.Q., Lim, H.W. (Eds.): ‘Principles and Practice of Photoprotection’ (Springer International Publishing, 2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Cuevas, E., Zaldívar, D., Perez-Cisneros, M.: ‘Template Matching by Using the States of Matter Algorithm’, in Zaldívar, D., Perez-Cisneros, M. (Eds.): ‘Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition’ (Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 79–105

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 Signal Processing.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: ‘Gravity May Delay Loss Of Antarctic Ice’, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gravity-may-delay-loss-antarctic-ice/, 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: ‘Department of Transportation: Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Romanek, J.L.: ‘The relative influence of sensation seeking and normal narcissism on academic cheating in emerging adults’. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2009

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

Crow, K.: ‘In Unlikely Urban Shadows, A Shopping Haven Takes Root’New York Times, 2003, p. 146.

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 Signal Processing
ISSN (print)	1751-9675
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering