How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management citation style

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

B. Wilcken, “Medicine. Newborn screening: gaps in the evidence,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6155, pp. 197–198, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. L. Downing and M. A. Leibold, “Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs,” Nature, vol. 416, no. 6883, pp. 837–841, Apr. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. J. Perrin, A. M. Fagan, and D. M. Holtzman, “Multimodal techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7266, pp. 916–922, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Wang, Z. Wang, H. Wu, and X. W. D. Lou, “Mesoporous single-crystal CoSn(OH)6 hollow structures with multilevel interiors,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1391, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Reid, Dyslexia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. Joubert, Ed., Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays, vol. 11. in Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol. 11. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Mourek and L. Miko, “Ontogeny of the famulus in selected members of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) and its suitability as a phylogenetic marker,” in Trends in Acarology: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress, M. W. Sabelis and J. Bruin, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 31–36.

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 Engineering Management.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “New Finding Offers Breakthrough In Beating African Sleeping Sickness,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-finding-offers-breakthrough-in-beating-african-sleeping-sickness/

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, “Planning and Flexibility Are Key to Effectively Deploying Broadband Conduit through Federal Highway Projects,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-687R, Jun. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Pookcharoen, “Metacognitive online reading strategies among Thai EFL university students,” 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]

J. Koblin, “‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoffs From HBO,” New York Times, p. C2, May 04, 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 Engineering Management
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0018-9391
Scope	Strategy and Management Electrical and Electronic Engineering