How to format your references using the IEEE Industry Applications Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Industry Applications 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]

P. Nurse, “Life, logic and information,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7203, pp. 424–426, Jul. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Rafii and D. Lyden, “Cancer. A few to flip the angiogenic switch,” Science, vol. 319, no. 5860, pp. 163–164, Jan. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Tamsir, J. J. Tabor, and C. A. Voigt, “Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical ‘wires,’” Nature, vol. 469, no. 7329, pp. 212–215, Jan. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Y. Sze, M. Victor, C. Loer, Y. Shi, and G. Ruvkun, “Food and metabolic signalling defects in a Caenorhabditis elegans serotonin-synthesis mutant,” Nature, vol. 403, no. 6769, pp. 560–564, Feb. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-F. Serval and J.-P. Tranié, The Monetary System. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. T. Bradley, E. E. Ryherd, and L. M. Ronsse, Eds., Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design, 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. M. Martínez-Otzeta, A. Ibarguren, A. Ansuategi, and L. Susperregi, “Laser Based People Following Behaviour in an Emergency Environment,” in Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Second International Conference, ICIRA 2009, Singapore, December 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, M. Xie, Y. Xiong, C. Xiong, H. Liu, and Z. Hu, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 33–42.

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 Industry Applications Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “These Trees Could Protect Against Wildfires,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-trees-can-protect-against-wild-fires/

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, “Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PEMD-93-12, Jun. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. A. Robinson, “Exploring the Barriers to Online-Business Profitability for Small Business,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2012.

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]

M. J. O. Murphy, “139 Years Ago: American Museum of Natural History Opens Its Permanent Home,” New York Times, p. C32, Jan. 22, 2016.

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 Industry Applications Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Ind. Appl. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1077-2618
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering