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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 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. J. Van Kranendonk, “Geochemistry. Onset of plate tectonics,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6041, pp. 413–414, Jul. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Shirts and V. S. Pande, “COMPUTING: Screen Savers of the World Unite!,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5498, pp. 1903–1904, Dec. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Ben-Yehuda, D. Z. Rudner, and R. Losick, “RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5606, pp. 532–536, Jan. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Stanley, L. Elkins-Tanton, M. T. Zuber, and E. M. Parmentier, “Mars’ paleomagnetic field as the result of a single-hemisphere dynamo,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5897, pp. 1822–1825, Sep. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Benslama, M. L. Boucenna, and H. Batatia, Ad Hoc Networks Telecommunications and Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

[1]

R. Srivastava, Growth and Form of Self-organized Branched Crystal Pattern in Nonlinear Chemical System. in SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Singapore: Springer, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Bristow, “Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History, and Technology in Britain’s Postindustrial and Postnatural Topographies,” in Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies, R. T. Tally and C. M. Battista, Eds., New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016, pp. 77–93.

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 Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, “Monkeys Can Now Type The Works Of Shakespeare Using Just Their Brains,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/monkeys-can-now-type-works-shakespeare-using-just-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, “Federal Family Education Loan Program: More Oversight Is Needed for Schools That Are Lenders,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-184, Jan. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. S. Domec, “Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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]

C. Talmadge, “A Military Budget Without a Plan,” New York Times, p. A23, Mar. 06, 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 Informatics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Industr. Inform.
ISSN (print)	1551-3203
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering