How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics citation style

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

L. Mestel, “Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005),” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7060, p. 828, Oct. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. D. Cymes and C. Grosman, “Tunable pKa values and the basis of opposite charge selectivities in nicotinic-type receptors,” Nature, vol. 474, no. 7352, pp. 526–530, May 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. E. DeCoursey, D. Morgan, and V. V. Cherny, “The voltage dependence of NADPH oxidase reveals why phagocytes need proton channels,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6931, pp. 531–534, Apr. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. J. Sánchez-Luque, M. Stich, S. Manrubia, C. Briones, and A. Berzal-Herranz, “Efficient HIV-1 inhibition by a 16 nt-long RNA aptamer designed by combining in vitro selection and in silico optimisation strategies,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6242, Sep. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. S. Nyce, Position Sensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

W. Marxer, Ed., Direct Democracy and Minorities. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Raffaghello and G. Bianchi, “Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and Tumor Growth,” in Interaction of Immune and Cancer Cells, M. Klink, Ed., Vienna: Springer, 2014, pp. 91–109.

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 Industrial Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, “Amazon Founder’s Rocket Company Will Be Launching From Florida,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazons-jeff-bezos-puts-pressure-spacex-new-launch-facility-blue-origin/

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, “FTA New York Mass Transit Grants: False Statements to FTA Grantee/Grantee Violations of Contracting Policy,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OSI-92-7, Sep. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Thompson, “An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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. Barron, “Trinity Church Is Sued For Moving a Sculpture,” New York Times, p. C3, Apr. 13, 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 Industrial Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
ISSN (print)	0278-0046
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering