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. R. Norrby, “Alert to a European epidemic,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7008, pp. 507–508, Sep. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Murray and M. Holman, “The role of chaotic resonances in the Solar System,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6830, pp. 773–779, Apr. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Oerlemans, D. Dahl-Jensen, and V. Masson-Delmotte, “Ice sheets and sea level,” Science, vol. 313, no. 5790, pp. 1043–5; author reply 1043-5, Aug. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Zhou et al., “Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis,” Science, vol. 362, no. 6410, pp. 69–72, Oct. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Cardon and M. Itmi, New Autonomous Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Sun, Y. Liu, and J. Zhao, Eds., Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data: 13th China National Conference, CCL 2014, and Second International Symposium, NLP-NABD 2014, Wuhan, China, October 18-19, 2014. Proceedings, vol. 8801. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8801. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Verducci, “Opening Minds Through Narratives,” in Art’s Teachings, Teaching’s Art: Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings, T. Lewis and M. Laverty, Eds., in Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015, pp. 49–61.

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, “If The US Had Price On Carbon, Would Keystone XL Have Made Sense?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/if-us-had-price-carbon-would-keystone-xl-have-made-sense/

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, “Highlights of a Forum: Financial Literacy: Strengthening Partnerships in Challenging Times,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-299SP, Feb. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. M. Kazadi, “Use of Data Fusion and SPC in Vibrations Detection,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2013.

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]

K. Crow, “One Week of Silent Soccer Seems to Be Quite Enough,” New York Times, p. 146, May 05, 2002.

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