How to format your references using the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems 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]

S. S. Sisodia, “Biomedicine. A cargo receptor mystery APParently solved?,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5556, pp. 805–807, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. C. Hsiao and K. Fong, “Making big money from small technology,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6979, pp. 218–220, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Hong, T. J. Mosca, and L. Luo, “Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map,” Nature, vol. 484, no. 7393, pp. 201–207, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Spite et al., “Resolvin D2 is a potent regulator of leukocytes and controls microbial sepsis,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7268, pp. 1287–1291, Oct. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Bailly, Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Doulamis, J. Mambretti, I. Tomkos, and T. Varvarigou, Eds., Networks for Grid Applications: Third International ICST Conference, GridNets 2009, Athens, Greece, September 8-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 25. in Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 25. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Salomaa, “Coaching of Key Talents in Multinational Companies,” in Global Talent Management: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities, A. Al Ariss, Ed., in Management for Professionals. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 43–63.

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 Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “The Thawing Of Permafrost Could Cause An Additional $43 Trillion Worth Of Economic Damage,” IFLScience, Sep. 21, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/thawing-permafrost-could-cause-additional-43-trillion-worth-economic-damage/ (accessed Oct. 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Aviation Security: Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System Faces Significant Implementation Challenges,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-385, Feb. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. M. Medina, “Living with Global Shocks: Examining the Responses of Firms and Governments,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

B. Kenigsberg, “In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning,” New York Times, p. C7, Jul. 06, 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]–[4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
ISSN (print)	1939-1390
Scope	Computer Science Applications Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering

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