How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 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]

C. Mora, “Comment on ‘Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality,’” Science, vol. 336, no. 6089, pp. 1639; author reply 1639, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Heinze and U. Homberg, “Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5814, pp. 995–997, Feb. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Sowers, R. B. Alley, and J. Jubenville, “Ice core records of atmospheric N2O covering the last 106,000 years,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5635, pp. 945–948, Aug. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Narkevic, and F. Crawford, “A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5851, pp. 777–780, Nov. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Gordon and S. Hernandez, The Official (ISC) 2® Guide to the SSCP 2® CBK 2®. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Eidelman, Separable Type Representations of Matrices and Fast Algorithms: Volume 2 Eigenvalue Method, vol. 235. in Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol. 235. Basel: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Girbau and L. Bruna, “Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Equation, General Concepts,” in Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Field Equation, L. Bruna, Ed., in Progress in Mathematical Physics. , Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010, pp. 109–128.

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 Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Plants With Weapons,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-weapons/

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, “Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AA-97-18(2), Apr. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. A. Klein, “Vocabulary acquisition via cross-situational learning,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2009.

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. Binder, “A Game Plan for Senate Democrats,” New York Times, p. A23, Feb. 10, 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 Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.
ISSN (print)	1051-8223
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics