How to format your references using the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine citation style

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

D. Goldston, “Small advances,” Nature, vol. 450, no. 7173, p. 1141, Dec. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Becks and A. F. Agrawal, “Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments,” Nature, vol. 468, no. 7320, pp. 89–92, Nov. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. A. Wieczorek, B. P. Weiss, and S. T. Stewart, “An impactor origin for lunar magnetic anomalies,” Science, vol. 335, no. 6073, pp. 1212–1215, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Nara, H. Tanimoto, Y. Tohjima, H. Mukai, Y. Nojiri, and T. Machida, “Emissions of methane from offshore oil and gas platforms in Southeast Asia,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6503, Sep. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Wesche, Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

C. Esposito, J. M. Guys, D. Gough, and A. Savanelli, Eds., Pediatric Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction: Diagnosis, Treatment, Long-Term Follow-up. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. C. Barrett and M. J. Daly, “Complex Disease Genes and Their Discovery,” in Molecular Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, M. D’Amato and J. D. Rioux, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 87–97.

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 Power and Energy Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, “How The Human Brain Can Register Information Without Conscious Attention,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-the-human-brain-can-register-information-without-conscious-attention/

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, “FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-IMTEC-90-6, Apr. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Calderwood, “Improving the singer’s understanding of bebop language: Transcription application,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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]

S. K. (nyt), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Admiral Convicted In Sub Deaths,” New York Times, p. A6, May 19, 2004.

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 Power and Energy Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Comput. Applic. Power
ISSN (print)	1540-7977
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering