IEEE journals with bibtex compatibility
If you want manage your bibliography with a .bib instead of bibitem, first you can do it with JabRef (see How to run JabRef on Ubuntu 15.10 ) A typical bibitem example is as follows: \begin{thebibliography}{1} \bibitem{IEEEhowto:kopka} H.~Kopka and P.~W. Daly, \emph{A Guide to \LaTeX}, 3rd~ed.\hskip 1em plus 0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Harlow, England: Addison-Wesley, 1999. \end{thebibliography} You need to replace it to: \bibliography{papers.bib}{} \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} Where papers.bib is the file where you have all information about your bibliography. Now, compile it with TeXstudio (see How to install TeXstudio 2.10.6 on Ubuntu 15.10 ) I couldn't open style file IEEEtran.bst To solve this we have 2 solutions Download IEEEtran.bst from CTAN with wget http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/bibtex/IEEEtran.bst Or install it with sudo apt-get install texlive-publishers