How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems citation style

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

R. Rickaby, “Journal club. A biogeochemist weighs up the climatic influence of CO2,” Nature, vol. 465, no. 7300, p. 849, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. S. Dawkins and A. Woodington, “Pattern recognition and active vision in chickens,” Nature, vol. 403, no. 6770, pp. 652–655, Feb. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. R. Viswanathan, G. Q. Daley, and R. I. Gregory, “Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5872, pp. 97–100, Apr. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. R. Krumholz, R. I. Klein, C. F. McKee, S. S. R. Offner, and A. J. Cunningham, “The formation of massive star systems by accretion,” Science, vol. 323, no. 5915, pp. 754–757, Feb. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Bunker and D. Thomson, Delivering Utility Computing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. Gerrath, Taming the Wild Grape: Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. M. Gabbay and K. Schlechta, “Laws About Size and Interpolation in Non-monotonic Logics,” in Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics, K. Schlechta, Ed., in Cognitive Technologies. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 153–195.

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 Fuzzy Systems.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “The Single Best Type Of Exercise For Your Brain, According To Scientists,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-single-best-type-of-exercise-for-your-brain-according-to-scientists/

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, “Space Shuttle: NASA’s Plans for Repairing or Replacing a Damaged or Destroyed Orbiter,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-94-197, Jul. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Burns, “Measuring the Outcome of At-Risk Students on Biology Standardized Tests When Using Different Instructional Strategies,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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. Williams, “Still Hunting Jack,” New York Times, p. BR4, Oct. 28, 2016.

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 Fuzzy Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
ISSN (print)	1063-6706
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computational Theory and Mathematics Control and Systems Engineering Applied Mathematics