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

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T. G. Benton, “Ecology. Managing farming’s footprint on biodiversity,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5810, pp. 341–342, Jan. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

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A. C. Spradling and Y. Zheng, “Developmental biology. The mother of all stem cells?,” Science, vol. 315, no. 5811, pp. 469–470, Jan. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. A. Ur, P. Karsgaard, and J. Oates, “Early urban development in the Near East,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5842, p. 1188, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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M. P. A. Branderhorst et al., “Coherent control of decoherence,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5876, pp. 638–643, May 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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A. Vignes, Extractive Metallurgy 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

V. Beckmann and M. Padmanabhan, Eds., Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

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S. E. Li and K. Deng, “Recent Advances in Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Method,” in Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control, L. Liu, Q. Zhu, L. Cheng, Y. Wang, and D. Zhao, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014, pp. 79–97.

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

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E. Andrew, “Computer Network Simulates Object Recognition In Primate Brains,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/computer-network-simulates-object-recognition-primate-brains/

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, “FAA Training: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Controller Field Training Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-89-83, Mar. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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C. D. Lofton, “Mid-Career Transitions: A Qualitative Study Examining the Developmental Relationships, Attitudes, Networks, and Strategies of Frontline Workers that Seek Career Development and Advancement,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

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G. H. Colt, “Sibling Rivalry: One Long Food Fight,” New York Times, p. SR3, Nov. 25, 2012.

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