How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 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	Download the output style file
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. Knapp, “What’s in a name?,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6808, p. 33, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Y. Oh and J. M. Olefsky, “Medicine. Wnt fans the flames in obesity,” Science, vol. 329, no. 5990, pp. 397–398, Jul. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Winter, J. López, and O. Von Helversen, “Ultraviolet vision in a bat,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6958, pp. 612–614, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. B. Ellwood, S. L. Benoist, A. El Hassani, C. Wheeler, and R. E. Crick, “Impact ejecta layer from the mid-Devonian: possible connection to global mass extinctions,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5626, pp. 1734–1737, Jun. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. K. Jayaweera, Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Ziemke, C. Balkenius, and J. Hallam, Eds., From Animals to Animats 12: 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, Odense, Denmark, August 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, vol. 7426. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7426. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Yang, M. Dolinger, G. Ritaccio, D. Conti, X. Zhu, and Y. Huang, “Leucine as a Stimulant of Insulin,” in Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 1, R. Rajendram, V. R. Preedy, and V. B. Patel, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2015, pp. 49–62.

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 Automation Science and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Fracking Technique Raises Prospect Of Better Prediction Of mega-Earthquakes,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-technique-raises-prospect-better-prediction-mega-earthquakes/

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, “VA Student Financial Aid: Opportunity to Reduce Overlap in Approving Education and Training Programs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-96-22, Oct. 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. M. Roberts, “Resilience in Physically Maltreated Adolescents: Interpersonally Related Protective Factors and Gender Differences,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2017.

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]

J. Gavin, “The Divine One,” New York Times, p. BR22, Jul. 20, 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 Automation Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Autom. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1545-5955
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering