K. Periodicals
Periodicals
Refer to the section “Common Abbreviations of Words in References” for non-IEEE titles. Note that periodical titles
of only one word should not be abbreviated, but fully spelled out, e.g., Science and Nature.
Prior to 1988, the volume number of IEEE Transactions/Journals carried the acronym of the journal. For example, an
issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL would read: IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol. AC-26,
no. 1, pp. 1–34, Jan. 1981. When referencing IEEE Transactions, both the issue number and month are included
upon verification of frequency and starting month. DOIs are included, when provided by the author.
NOTE: The only exception to this rule is PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, which never carried an acronym on the
masthead.
Basic Format:
● J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year.
● J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi:
xxx.
Examples:
● M. M. Chiampi and L. L. Zilberti, “Induction of electric field in human bodies moving near MRI: An efficient
BEM computational procedure,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, pp. 2787–2793, Oct. 2011, doi:
10.1109/TBME.2011.2158315.
● M. Ito et al., “Can the application of amorphous oxide TFT be an electrophoretic display?,” J. Non-Cryst.
Solids, vol. 354, no. 19, pp. 2777–2782, Feb. 2008.
● R. Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode
pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art. no. 061103.
● J. Zhang and N. Tansu, “Optical gain and laser characteristics of InGaN quantum wells on ternary InGaN
substrates,” IEEE Photon. J., vol. 5, no. 2, Apr. 2013, Art no. 2600111.
● S. Preu, G.H.Döhler, S.Malzer, L.J.Wang, and A. C. Gossard,“Tunable continuous-wave terahertz photo
mixer sources and applications,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 109, Mar. 2011, Art. no. 061301.
● S. Azodolmolky et al., Experimental demonstration of an impairment aware network planning and operation
tool for transparent/translucent optical networks,” J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 439–448, Sep. 2011.
● H. Eriksson and P. E. Danielsson, “Two problems on Boolean memories,” IEEE Trans. Electron. Devices, vol.
ED-11, no. 1, pp. 32–33, Jan. 1959.
● F. Aronowitz, “Theory of traveling-wave optical maser,” Phys. Rev., vol. 134, pp. A635–A646, Dec. 8, 1965.
● Ye. V. Lavrova, “Geographic distribution of ionospheric disturbances in the F2 layer,” Tr. IZMIRAN, vol. 19,
no. 29, pp. 31–43, 1961 (Transl.: E. R. Hope, Directorate of Scientific Information Services, Defence
Research Board of Canada, Rep. T384R, Apr. 1963).
● E. P. Wigner, “On a modification of the Rayleigh–Schrodinger perturbation theory,” (in German), Math.
Naturwiss. Anz. Ungar. Akad. Wiss., vol. 53, p. 475, 1935.
● E. H. Miller, “A note on reflector arrays,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., to be published.*** Always use this
style when the paper has been accepted or scheduled for a future publication but has not been published as
early access, i.e., do not use “to appear in.”***
● F. Vatta, A. Soranzo, and F. Babich, “More accurate analysis of sum-product decoding of LDPC codes using a
Gaussian approximation,” IEEE Commun. Lett., early access, Dec. 11, 2018, doi:
10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2886261. ***Always state if the article is early access and include its online version
date and DOI. The DOI is essential as it will not change, though the date may.***
● C. K. Kim, “Effect of gamma rays on plasma,” submitted for publication. *** Always use this style when the
paper has not yet been accepted or scheduled for publication, i.e., do not use “to appear in.”***
● W. Rafferty, “Ground antennas in NASA’s deep space telecommunications,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 82, no. 5, pp.
636-640, May 1994.
● P. Kopyt et al., “Electric properties of graphene-based conductive layers from DC up to terahertz range,” IEEE
THz Sci. Technol., to be published, doi: 10.1109/TTHZ.2016.2544142.