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]

M. M. Crow, “Digital learning: look, then leap,” Nature, vol. 499, no. 7458, pp. 275–277, Jul. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. D. Lyerly and R. R. Faden, “Embryonic stem cells. Willingness to donate frozen embryos for stem cell research,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5834, pp. 46–47, Jul. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Q. Zhang, D. W. Piston, and R. H. Goodman, “Regulation of corepressor function by nuclear NADH,” Science, vol. 295, no. 5561, pp. 1895–1897, Mar. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. A. W. Stecyk, K.-O. Stensløkken, A. P. Farrell, and G. E. Nilsson, “Maintained cardiac pumping in anoxic crucian carp,” Science, vol. 306, no. 5693, p. 77, Oct. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. M. Hogg and R. D. Fulk, A Grammar of Old English. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T. Jiang et al., Eds., 6th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Bandyopadhyay and S. K. Pal, “Variable String Lengths in GA-classifier,” in Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence, S. K. Pal, Ed., in Natural Computing Series. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 109–137.

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]

S. Luntz, “Explanation For How BCG Vaccine Protects Against Other Diseases,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/explanation-for-how-bcg-vaccine-protects-against-other-diseases/

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, “Information Technology: Customs Has Made Progress on Automated Commercial Environment System, but It Faces Long-Standing Management Challenges and New Risks,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-580, May 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. A. Wheatley, “Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2010.

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. Aikins, “Reading the Wreckage,” New York Times, p. MM37, May 17, 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 Industrial Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
ISSN (print)	0278-0046
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering