How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. 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]

E. Check, “Patenting the obvious?,” Nature, vol. 447, no. 7140, pp. 16–17, May 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Anderson and S. Brenner, “Obituary: Seymour Benzer (1921-2007),” Nature, vol. 451, no. 7175, p. 139, Jan. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Belevich, M. I. Verkhovsky, and M. Wikström, “Proton-coupled electron transfer drives the proton pump of cytochrome c oxidase,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7085, pp. 829–832, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. H. Bassing et al., “Recombination signal sequences restrict chromosomal V(D)J recombination beyond the 12/23 rule,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6786, pp. 583–586, Jun. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Tunley, A. Whittaker, J. Gee, and M. Button, The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. Zaibert, Ed., The Theory and Practice of Ontology. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Harris, J. Young, N. Sultanum, P. Lapides, E. Sharlin, and M. C. Sousa, “Designing Snakey: A Tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning,” in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011: 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings, Part III, P. Campos, N. Graham, J. Jorge, N. Nunes, P. Palanque, and M. Winckler, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 45–53.

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 Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Stress Can Alter Your Genome,” IFLScience.

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, “Space Operations: Listing of NASA Scientific Missions, 1980-2000,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-89-46FS, Apr. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. M. Haradon, “The ecological context of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in Africa,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2010.

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]

W. Hu and N. Remnick, “Belated Focus on Prime Suspect in an Outbreak,” New York Times, p. A1, Aug. 04, 2015.

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 Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Top. Power Electron.
ISSN (print)	2168-6777
Scope