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]

P. Smaglik, “Granting longevity,” Nature, vol. 430, no. 7002, p. 947, Aug. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Kereszt and E. Kondorosi, “Plant science. Unlocking the door to invasion,” Science, vol. 331, no. 6019, pp. 865–866, Feb. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. A. Wardle, L. R. Walker, and R. D. Bardgett, “Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5683, pp. 509–513, Jul. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Chen et al., “Dishevelled 2 recruits beta-arrestin 2 to mediate Wnt5A-stimulated endocytosis of Frizzled 4,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5638, pp. 1391–1394, Sep. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. E. Gup, Banking and Financial Institutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

W. T. Snodgrass, Ed., Pediatric Urology: Evidence for Optimal Patient Management. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Limpert et al., “Compact Ultrafast Oscillators and High Performance Ultrafast Amplifiers Based on Ytterbium-Doped Fibers,” in Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology: Laser Sources and Applications, S. Nolte, F. Schrempel, and F. Dausinger, Eds., in Springer Series in Optical Sciences. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 75–91.

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]

E. Andrew, “Watch Live Webcast Of Thursday’s Partial Solar Eclipse,” IFLScience.

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, “International Aviation: Implications of Ratifying the Montreal Aviation Protocols,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-90-83, Jun. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. R. Raines, “Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two large schools,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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]

G. G. Gustines, “Leaping Off the Pages in the Himalayas,” New York Times, p. C27, Dec. 30, 2011.

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]–[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