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]

G. Hestmark, “Temptations of the tree,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6815, p. 911, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Stein and E. A. Okal, “Seismology: speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake,” Nature, vol. 434, no. 7033, pp. 581–582, Mar. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. G. Victor, J. C. House, and S. Joy, “Climate. A Madisonian approach to climate policy,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5742, pp. 1820–1821, Sep. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. A. Krivitsky, J. J. Wang, Z. Wang, and B. Luk’yanchuk, “Locomotion of microspheres for super-resolution imaging,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3501, Dec. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. E. Kelsey, D. J. Newport, and C. B. Nemeroff, Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

H. Yu, Design Exploration of Emerging Nano-scale Non-volatile Memory. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Beyersdorf, “First Professional International: FIJ (1926–40),” in A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics, U. J. Björk, F. Beyersdorf, S. Høyer, and E. Lauk, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 80–124.

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]

B. Taub, “Smoking Cannabis While Pregnant May Increase Chance Of Babies Entering Intensive Care,” IFLScience, Apr. 29, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-cannabis-while-pregnant-increases-chance-babies-entering-intensive-care/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-08-440, Mar. 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Yalof, “Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2012.

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]

M. M. Grynbaum and J. Koblin, “Kelly and NBC Quickly Land on the Hot Seat,” New York Times, p. B3, Jun. 16, 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 Engineering Management
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0018-9391
Scope	Strategy and Management Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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