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]

J. V. Ross, “Comment on ‘On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects’ II,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5764, pp. 1100; author reply 1100, Feb. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. D. Pasteris and B. Wopenka, “Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils?,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6915, pp. 476–7; discussion 477, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Li, W. M. Saslow, and V. L. Pokrovsky, “Phase diagram for magnon condensate in Yttrium Iron Garnet film,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1372, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Trieloff et al., “Structure and thermal history of the H-chondrite parent asteroid revealed by thermochronometry,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6931, pp. 502–506, Apr. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. S. Sugirtharajah, Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T. Ando, R. E. Curto, I. B. Jung, and W. Y. Lee, Eds., Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Applications, vol. 187. in Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol. 187. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Zecevic, S. Rakic, I. Jakovcevski, and R. Filipovic, “Contributions of the Neocortical Svz to Human Brain Development,” in Mammalian Subventricular Zones: Their Roles in Brain Development, Cell Replacement and Disease, S. W. Levison, Ed., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006, pp. 117–158.

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]

E. Andrew, “Unidentified ‘Bump’ In LHC Data May Be Yet Another Brand New Particle,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/unidentified-bump-may-be-new-particle/

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, “District of Columbia: Weaknesses in Personnel Records and Public Schools’ Management Information and Controls,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-AIMD-95-170, Jun. 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. D. DeMoss, “Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

B. Brantley, “A Feast for Actors, With One in the Kitchen,” New York Times, p. C6, May 22, 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 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