How to format your references using the IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

R. Triendl, “A clash of two cultures,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6910, p. 7, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Schulze-Lefert and S. Bieri, “Plant sciences. Recognition at a distance,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5721, pp. 506–508, Apr. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. F. Holt 3rd, Y. Belkhadir, and J. L. Dangl, “Antagonistic control of disease resistance protein stability in the plant immune system,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5736, pp. 929–932, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. A. Leighton et al., “Defining brain wiring patterns and mechanisms through gene trapping in mice,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6825, pp. 174–179, Mar. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Duhon, How the Trading Floor Really Works. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D. J. Trozak, Dermatology Skills for Primary Care: An Illustrated Guide. in Current Clinical Practice. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Ferri, M. Noguera, and D. Urbano, “The Effect of Cultural Factors on Social Entrepreneurship: The Impact of the Economic Downturn in Spain,” in Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Culture: An Institutional Perspective, M. Peris-Ortiz and J. M. Merigó-Lindahl, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 75–87.

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 IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, “Scientists Developed This 9-Question Test To Measure How Sadistic Someone Is,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-developed-this-9-question-test-to-measure-how-sadistic-someone-is/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Information Technology: DLA Needs to Strengthen Its Investment Management Capability,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-02-314, Mar. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. V. Todman, “Applicability of health care leadership competence and leadership behaviors for women’s achieving health care executive status,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2016.

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

[1]

L. Welles and J. Leland, “Coney Island, Ever Changing,” New York Times, p. MB7, Jul. 20, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Electr. Insul. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0883-7554
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials